Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks - Alive & Lickin' (2001 Surfdog)

Artist: Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Title: Alive and Lickin'
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Surfdog Records
Genre: Western Swing, Country, Gypsy Jazz, Folk Rock
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 01:11:02

Tracklist:
01. Alive & Lickin' Intro (Live)
02. Where's The Money (Live)
03. I Got Mine (Live)
04. Shootin' Straight (Live)
05. How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? (Live)
06. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me Live)
07. My Cello (Live)
08. Wild About My Lovin' (Live)
09. I Feel Like Singin' (Live)
10. Comes Love (Live)
11. Payday Blues (Live)
12. Caravan/Four Brothers (Live)
13. Four Or Five Times (Live)
14. The Buzzard Was Their Friend (Live)

Personnel:
Dan Hicks – rhythm guitar, lead vocal and harmonica
Susan Rabin - harmony vocal and percussion instruments
Annabelle Cruz - harmony vocal, percussion instruments and second violin
Brian Godchaux - lead violin and mandolin
Tom Mitchell - lead guitar
Steve Alcott - string bass

Daniel Ivan Hicks (December 9, 1941 – February 6, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter known for an idiosyncratic style that combined elements of cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music. He led ″Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks″. 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, "There 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."