Dan Hicks

American singer-songwriter

Born: 9 December 1941
Little Rock
Died: 6 February 2016
Mill Valley
Country: United States
Active: 1965–
Record labels: Epic Records

Biography

Dan Hicks was a jazz musician who played guitar, drum and voice. Dan Hicks was born on 9 December 1941 in Little Rock and died on 6 February 2016 in Mill Valley. The music is usually filed under jazz and traditional folk music. Record labels: Epic Records.

Daniel Ivan Hicks (December 9, 1941 – February 6, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, and the leader of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. His idiosyncratic style combined elements of cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music. He is perhaps best known for the songs "I Scare Myself" and "Canned Music". His songs are frequently infused with humor, as evidenced by the title of his tune "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?" His album Live at Davies (2013) capped over forty years of music. Writing about Hicks for Oxford American in 2007, critic David Smay said, "[T]here was a time from the ’20s through the ’40s when swing—'hot rhythm'—rippled through every form of popular music. That’s the music Dan Hicks plays, and there’s no single word for it because it wasn’t limited to any one genre.

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