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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

• The Hot Licks, the long-running folk-swing band founded by the late Mill Valley musician Dan Hicks, performs a set of Hicks’ music at 8 p.m. tonight at the Throckmorton Theatre at 142 Throckmorton ...

A crafty, sarcastic nostalgist, Dan Hicks is to music what R. Crumb is to comics. Forged in the same Haight-Ashbury acid crucible, Hicks has written some of the more hummably retro tunes of the past ...

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(Surfdog, 2009): Hicks was the ultimate hipster when he launched his recording career back in the ’70s with a unique blend of acoustic swing and Gypsy jazz that was at once nostalgic and surreal.