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Dan Hicks, film & parade part of VC’s ‘hippie
weekend’
(March 21, 2008)
The event will begin with the movie ‘The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon,’ by Mary Works at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4 at Piper’s Opera House. Cost is $5 and funds will go to Piper’s Opera House restoration
The Hippie Days Again Peace Parade will be at noon Saturday, April 5 with a Peace Parade, and Hicks will perform at 7 p.m. at Piper’s Opera House.
The parade is sponsored by ‘Ol Virginny Ink,
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, one of the most compelling and
truly original voices in American music today, will perform a very special
evening premiering new songs from their forthcoming Summer
'08 release.
"Songwriting and song-gathering can be a life-long process" says Dan,
who with his Hot Licks will be presenting an evening of their original
folk-swing as well as a rare "sneak-peak" of brand new Dan Hicks
songs to be featured on their upcoming tenth studio CD. "The well is not
dry" says Dan, who claims to have found three new rhymes for the word
"orange!"
Being produced by Grammy-winner Chris Goldsmith (Blind Boys
of Alabama) the new CD will be released
world-wide in Summer '08 by Dan's long-time label Surfdog
Records.
This rare performance begins at p.m . The opera house is located at
Beginning as a drummer in the seminal 60’s
Hicks
has earned a reputation as a true original with his signature eclecticism
and humor. He continues to carve his own way through a number of genres
from proto-psychedelia to western swing and jazz;
from tin pan alley to country blues, while always
cultivating his own unique sound. The original Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
recorded five ground-breaking and Billboard-charting records for the
They toured worldwide and Dan appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine three times. The newest incarnation of DH & HL released the wildly successful “Beatin’ the Heat” in 2000, featuring collaborations with Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones and Brian Setzer. USA Today called it “one of the blessings of the new millenium”
That release was followed by the live cd “Alive & Lickin” in 2001, and the late 2003 cd/dvd “Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks Featuring An All Star Cast of Friends”
That project reunited Hicks with virtually every musician he has ever played and recorded with. Both Mojo and Downbeat Magazines rated it “Four Stars...one of the best cds of ’04.” 2005 brought the newest studio release “Selected Shorts” featuring special guests Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Gibby Haynes, Jim Keltner and Van Dyke Parks.
Widely touted as the band’s best cd
yet -- The New Yorker Magazine remarked “As great as his early masterpiece
“Where’s the Money?”... truly superb.” 2008 will
bring the release of Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks tenth studio CD to be
produced by Grammy-winner Chris Goldsmith (Blind Boys of Alabama)
featuring all new Dan Hicks original songs with special guests.
This promises to be another classic addition to the truly unique body of work
of this great American songwriter. To quote Daily Variety, “Dan Hicks is at the
top of his game … unlike many pop artists today, a
new studio album from Dan Hicks is like a new painting from Picasso… STAY
TUNED!”