FRIDAY MUSIC: Dan Hicks

By JD

Dan Hicks, 1941-2016

As he admits, Dan Hicks was in the right place at the right time when, after moving from Arkansas to California as a child, then cutting his musical teeth in the US’ burgeoning folk clubs, he landed in 1966 San Francisco, where the counterculture was coalescing into the city’s psychedelic revolution. As drummer with The Charlatans, he played the acid-coated residency at Virginia City’s Red Dog Saloon credited with kickstarting 1967’s short-lived summer of love, but soon struck out to lead the old-time hothouse jazz of his Hot Licks.

http://www.danhicks.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Hicks_(singer)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2pfYcswtVB6ncdkd5PP0H2N/psychedelic-frontiersmen-how-dan-hicks-and-the-charlatans-licked-west-coast-rock-into-shape

Dan Hicks Remembered: 1941 - 2016

Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks-Canned Music

Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks-Payday

Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks on Flip Wilson