Dan Hicks, a longtime Bay Area music figure and the lead singer of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, passed away Saturday following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 74. Hicks’ wife CT confirmed ...

Remembering Folk Singer/Songwriter Dan Hicks Hicks, who died on Saturday, began performing with his band Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks in the late '60s. Rock historian Ed Ward has an appreciation.

Dan had other ideas about the kind of music he wanted to make, and began putting together an acoustic combo which included two female backup singers, who were dubbed "Lickettes". Billed as Dan Hicks ...

Not all swing music sounds the same. Sure, in the last few years, a rash of similar-sounding 1940s-style bands began dolling themselves up in zoot suits and wide-brimmed hats to pump out jumpy odes… ...

Dan was the drummer in that band, but he was also the best singer and so fairly quickly he worked his way to the front of the stage. In 1968, he formed his own band, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, which ...

Dan Hicks sees a downside to being closely identified with a very specific style of music. Hicks writes a song with a particular rhythm, an identifiable instrumentation, a signature. Serving Aspen and ...

As a performer and songwriter, Dan Hicks is imminently engaging, twisting his signature mishmash of damn near every musical style known to man into songs t. Skip to content. Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

In Dan Hicks’ posthumous memoir, “I Scare Myself,” he starts at the beginning, ... a hip acoustic group with a jazz violinist and a couple of female backup singers, ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 -- If you ask Better Midler, Dan Hicks' first album in six years couldn't have come too soon. Midler, who performs a duet with Hicks on the new CD, "Beatin' the Heat," says ...

The song I’m talking about on Dan’s new CD with the Hot Licks, “Tangled Tales,” recorded at the Plant in Sausalito, has Dan and his female backup singers, the Lickettes, scat singing from ...