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true Brother J... posted by James | Thursday, June 24, 2004 mystery & detective hard-boiled I SCARE MYSELFDan HicksDan Hicks & His Hot Licks (aka Original Recordings) 1969 [buy it]CARMINA BURANA(EXCERPT)Sandy BullInventions 1965[buy it]"With all the fuss these days over folks like Squirrel mystery & detective hard-boiled Nut Zippers and the Asylum Street Spankers, it'd be nice if somebody -- anybody -- would mention that their whole swingband/stringband schtick was pioneered decades mystery & detective hard-boiled ago by this feller, Marin County's genius curmudgeon recluse, Dan Hicks. Who would have suspected, all those years ago when the San Francisco hippies were running around dressed in Victorian and Edwardian thrift store clothes, that Hicks actually meant it. A retro-maniac with the chops and sardonic wit to back it up, Hicks combined rootsy folk and blues along with Tin Pan Alley melodic swing, and tromped way ahead of the pack in the acoustic revival. While many of the '60s jug bands stuck to a scholarly blues booziness, Hicks hinted at a higher level of nudge-nudge, wink-wink sarcastic expression...
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