Where's The Money? Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks

Every headline I read his month seems to be all about the money. Dan Hicks seemed to fit.

"There were many bands at the center of Bay Area counterculture in the late sixties: the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane. One of the strangest, and best, was Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks—after Hicks left the Charlatans, in the late sixties, he created an unholy hybrid of folk, cowboy music, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, and swing, elevated by his witty, wordy songwriting. Hicks has kept at it over the years, sometimes with the help of friends like Elvis Costello and Tom Waits, and in March he’ll release “Tangled Tales,” a new album." -- The New Yorker

"A San Francisco band that broke up in 1974, Dan Hicks' style was to combine jazz, swing, folk, and a little bit of country, producing snappy and cleverly original music like no other. Each song has a distinctly different flavor, and his lyrics are filled with humor." -- Amazon review

"Dan Hicks enjoyed a remarkable degree of commercial success in the early `70's playing a cross-pollination of jazz, folk, and cowboy music that was decidedly non-mainstream. Think of what would happen if Lyle Lovett, Stephanne Grapelli, the Andrews Sisters, and Roy Rogers had decided to form a band, and that may give you an idea of what Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks were about." -- Amazon review

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks: Where's the Money (1971)

01 I Feel Like Singing
02 Coast To Coast
03 News From Up The Street
04 Where's The Money
05 Caught In The Rain
06 Shorty Falls In Love
07 By Hook Or By Crook
08 Reelin' Down
09 The Buzzard Was Their Friend
10 Traffic Jam
11 Is This My Happy Home
12 Dig A Little Deeper

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks: Striking it Rich (1972)

01 You Gotta Believe
02 Walkin' One And Only
03 O'Reilly At The Bar
04 Moody Richard (The Innocent Bystander)
05 Flight Of The Fly
06 I Scare Myself
07 Philly Rag
08 The Laughing Song
09 Canned Music
10 I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande)
11 Woe, The Luck
12 Presently In The Past
13 Skippy's Farewell
14 Fujiyama

I Scare Myself