The music world has lost yet another member with the news that singer-songwriter Dan Hicks has died following a two year battle with throat and liver cancer.
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“My darling darling husband left this earth early this morning”, his wife, CT, posted on his website today. He will be remembered for such songs as “I Scare Myself”, “Canned Music” and “How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?”.
The band never used electronic instruments and rarely included drums, and in the nineties Dan returned to music with The Acoustic Warriors, who used guitars, violins and bass for swing, jazz, and country songs.
Although he was undergoing treatment for cancer, Hicks performed a tribute to Fats Waller at SFJazz in 2014, according to SFGate.
Dan Hicks, a musician whose work in the 1960s helped define San Francisco’s psychedelic sound, has died.
He began his musical career in San Francisco in the 1960s playing drums for rock band The Charlatans.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported (http://sfg.ly/1ml3gEW) that he later said he disbanded the Hot Licks because he didn’t want to be a bandleader anymore and called himself a loner.
After some personnel changes, and a deal with Blue Thumb Records, what had then become the “classic” Hot Licks ensemble went on to produce the critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums Where’s The Money?
The Hot Licks broke up in 1973 at the height of their popularity. They wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for me.
His latest album, “Live at Davies”, was released in 2013.
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Tim Burgess, the lead singer of The Charlatans, wrote on Twitter following Hicks’ death, “We discovered his band as we accidentally borrowed their name, an honour to have shared it”.
