Music critic Ashley Kahn reviews a single song, "Hey Bartender," from the latest best-hits CD Selected Shorts by barroom balladeer Dan Hicks. He says it's as good a recording as the iconoclastic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dan Hicks, the man that introduced ragtime and tin pan alley to long hairs in the early '70s, returns with his Hot Licks on a brand-new collection, Tangled Tales, arriving March 24, 2009 on Surfdog ...