This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember Dan Hicks, who died of liver cancer Saturday. He was 74. He was a singer-songwriter and leader of the band Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, which he formed in ...

The holidays are behind them, but Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks are keeping the show on the road and bring it to One World Theatre in Austin TONIGHT (1/22). Tickets are still available. Dan turned 70 on ...

Mortality keeps hitting second-generation giants of popular music hard; sadly, two more in recent days. Best known was Maurice White, Earth, Wind & Fire’s founder, leader, main songwriter and co-lead ...

“We’re ready for the good times with a bunch of songs from our latest recording and some older favorites that people always like to hear,” he said. “I don’t make the claim that I’m a comedian, but I ...

There were wonderful performers — the Hot Licks, jug bands, Mike Lipskin, Maria Muldaur, Kitty Margolis among them — at Saturday night’s musical tribute to Dan Hicks, who died last month at 74, and ...

Dan Hicks doesn’t fret that guests on his albums — who range from Bette Midler to Tom Waits to slide-guitarist Roy Rogers — don’t tour with him. The bottom line is the guests on the songs performed by ...

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Dan Hicks, a musician whose work in the 1960s helped define San Francisco’s psychedelic sound, has died. He was 74. The singer, songwriter and bandleader_who led the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dan Hicks, an American singer and songwriter whose offbeat mix of folk, jazz, pop, country and blues earned him critical acclaim over a 40-year career, has died at age 74, his ...

When he emerged in the early ’70s with his motley Hot Licks band, his music already sounded old-timey. Hicks’ swinging, fiddle-happy sound evoked an imaginary past where New Orleans jazz greats played ...

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Dan Hicks, a musician whose work in the 1960s helped define San Francisco’s psychedelic sound, has died. He was 74. The singer, songwriter and bandleader — leader of the ...