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 ...

When the folk music jamboree ‘‘Hootenanny’’ hit the ABC airwaves in April 1963, it struck a chord with then-21-year-old Dan Hicks. ‘‘That’s when I really started playing guitar,’’ says Hicks. ‘‘The ...