Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Boarding House, San Francisco (Live '71) (2021)

Throughout his decades-long career, Dan Hicks stood as one of contemporary music's true eccentrics. While steeped in folk, his acoustic sound knew few musical boundaries. He drew on country, call-and-response vocals, jazz phrasing, and no small amount of humor to create a distinctive, albeit sporadic, body of work that earned him a devoted cult following. Hicks was born December 9, 1941, to a military family then living in Arkansas, and grew up in California, where he was a drummer in a number of high-school bands. He attended college in San Francisco, where he switched to guitar and began playing folk music. He returned to the drums, however, when he joined the Charlatans, one of the Bay City's first psychedelic bands. Although the Charlatans were short-lived – they issued only one single during their existence – they proved influential throughout the San Francisco musical community and were one of the first acts to play the legendary Family Dog. Hicks had formed the acoustic group Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks in 1968 as an opener for the Charlatans, but soon the new band became his primary project. After adding a pair of female backing vocalists – "the Lickettes" – the group issued its debut LP, Original Recordings, in 1969. After a pair of 1971 records, Where's the Money? and Striking It Rich, they issued 1973's Last Train to Hicksville, which proved to be the Hot Licks' most successful album yet.

Track List:

[00:21] 01. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Intro (Live)
[03:57] 02. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Evening Breeze (Live)
[02:26] 03. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - How Can I Miss You (When You Won't Go Away) (Live)
[03:53] 04. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Caught In The Rain (Live)
[03:56] 05. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - By Hook Or By Crook (Live)
[03:31] 06. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Presently In The Past (Live)
[02:47] 07. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - I Feel Like Singing (Live)
[03:22] 08. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - The Rounder (Live)
[04:18] 09. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Shorty Falls in Love-Fujiyama (Live)
[03:33] 10. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Reelin' Down (Live)
[03:39] 11. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Where's The Money (Live)
[02:47] 12. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - The Buzzard Was Their Friend (Live)
[05:46] 13. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Peach Pickin' Time (Live)
[05:41] 14. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - He Don't Care (Stoned) (Live)
[05:39] 15. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Woe The Luck (Live)
[05:08] 16. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - The Rounder (2) (Live)
[05:02] 17. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Shorty Falls in Love-Fujiyama (2) (Live)
[02:20] 18. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - How Can I Miss You (When You Won't Go Away) (2) (Live)
[01:53] 19. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Station Promo's From Dan Hicks (Live)