Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks has been played on NTS in shows including Donna Leake, featured first on 3 March 2020. Songs played include I Scare Myself, Canned Music and I Scare Myself.

Dan Hicks, (born December 9, 1941, in Little Rock, Arkansas), was the son of a career military man. At age five, Hicks moved with his family to California, eventually settling north of San Francisco in Santa Rosa, where he was a drummer in grade school and played the snare drum in his school marching band.

At 14, he was performing with area dance bands. While in high school, he had a rotating…