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Daniel Ivan Hicks (December 9, 1941 – February 6, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, 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. Django Reinhardt and the Mills Brothers and Spade Cooley and Hank Garland and the Boswell Sisters and Stuff Smith and Bing Crosby all swing. You can make yourself nutty trying to define what Dan Hicks is. Then again, you could just say: Dan Hicks swings."
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Greatest Licks: I Feel Like Singin' [2017]
Song | Duration |
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I Scare Myself | 3:43 |
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? | 4:30 |
Greatest Licks: I Feel Like Singin' [Digital Download Card] [2017]
Song | Duration |
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I Scare Myself | |
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? |
Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock, Vol. 6: 1973 [2015]
Song | Duration |
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Payday Blues | 2:51 |
Live at Davies [2013]
Song | Duration |
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I Scare Myself | 5:57 |
Family Dog Presents Chet Helms Tribal Stomp [2008]
Song | Duration |
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I Scare Myself | 7:00 |
Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 [2007]
Song | Duration |
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How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away | 2:38 |
Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks [CD Only] [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Canned Music | 6:28 |
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? | 5:00 |
Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks: Featuring an All-Star Cast of Friends [2003]
Song | Duration |
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How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away |
Alive & Lickin' [2001]
Song | Duration |
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How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? | 5:13 |
Four or Five Times | 7:20 |
Alive & Lickin' [Japan Bonus Track] [2001]
Song | Duration |
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How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? | 5:12 |
Four or Five Times | 7:19 |
I Scare Myself [*] | 9:06 |
The Most of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks [2001]
Beatin' the Heat [2000]
Song | Duration |
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I Scare Myself | 3:43 |
Beatin' the Heat [Japan Bonus Track] [2000]
Song | Duration |
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I Scare Myself | 3:43 |
Return to Hicksville: The Best of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks -- The Blue Thumb Years 197 [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Canned Music | 3:34 |
I Scare Myself | 5:36 |
You Gotta Believe | 2:55 |
My Old Timey Baby | 2:28 |
Sweetheart (Waitress in a Donut Shop) | 2:35 |
All Day Thumbsucker Revisited [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Canned Music | 3:30 |
I Scare Myself | 5:34 |
All Day Thumbsucker Revisited [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Riffin (aka a Motif Is Just a Riff) | 7:29 |
All Day Thumbsucker Revisited: The History of Blue Thumb Records [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Canned Music | 3:31 |
I Scare Myself | 5:35 |
Moody Richard [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Payday Blues | 2:52 |
My Old Timey Baby | 2:29 |
It's Not My Time to Go | 3:29 |
Last Train to Hicksville: The Home of Happy Feet [1973]
Song | Duration |
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Cowboy's Dream No. 19 | 2:50 |
Lonely Madman | 2:59 |
My Old Timey Baby | 2:29 |
Vivando | 4:18 |
Success | 4:11 |
Cheaters Don't Win | 3:16 |
Payday Blues | 2:52 |
I Asked My Doctor | 0:51 |
The Euphonious Whale | 3:08 |
Sweetheart (Waitress in a Donut Shop) | 2:35 |
It's Not My Time to Go | 3:30 |
Striking It Rich [1972]
Song | Duration |
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You Gotta Believe | 2:53 |
I Scare Myself | 5:35 |
Canned Music | 3:33 |
Original Recordings [1969]
Song | Duration |
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Canned Music | 4:05 |
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? | 2:39 |
I Scare Myself | 5:18 |
Unknown Album
Song | Duration |
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Sweetheart (Waitress in a Donut Shop) | 2:35 |
You Gotta Believe | 2:53 |
I Scare Myself | 5:34 |
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? | 2:39 |
Canned Music | 4:05 |
'Long Come a Viper | 2:11 |
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