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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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_who led the ...

• 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 ...

Deck the halls. Redoubtable Dan Hicks (pictured), merry master of mirth and happiness, hosts "Holidaze in Hicksville" on Saturday at the Fillmore. The Christmas Jug Band, an annual congregation Hicks ...