Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks Benefit for Kids' Health Exams

Press release
Source: Randex PR

Dan Hicks

This show is also a benefit for Benifund For Kids, Inc. (www.benifund.org), a non profit 501 (C) 3 recognized public charity dedicated to providing annual physical exams to the 10 million children in the U.S. who are uninsured and receive no federal, state or local assistance to obtain health and wellness care. Through corporate sponsorships, special events, private donations and organized partnerships, Benifund For Kids, Inc. raises money to assist with funding to local children's organizations throughout the country that participate in child wellness programs.

On May 22 2007, iTunes and Surfdog Records released a DOWNLOADABLE CYBER-ALBUM featuring all the SPECIAL GUEST DUETS featured on the Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks smash albums Beatin' The Heat and Selected Shorts. Available at iTunes and www.surfdog.com --

The tracks are:
1. I Don't Want Love (Brian Setzer)
2. I Scare Myself (Rickie Lee Jones)
3. Strike It While It's Hot (Bette Midler)
4. Meet Me On The Corner (Elvis Costello & Brian Setzer)
5. I'll Tell You Why That Is (Tom Waits)
6. Driftin' (Rickie Lee Jones)
7. One More Cowboy (Willie Nelson)
8. Barstool Boogie (Jimmy Buffett)
9. That Ain't Right (Gibby Haynes)
10. That's Where I Am (Jack Sheldon)

This rare performance begins at 6 p.m. The Barn is located at 409 Pomfret Rd. Brooklyn CT 06234. Tickets cost $20.00, and are available at www.thebarnct.com and the Barn Box Office 409 Pomfret Rd. Brooklyn CT 06234. For additional ticket and show information call 860-779-9343.

DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS

Beginning as a drummer in the seminal ‘60s San Francisco rock band The Charlatans, and continuing with the unique and legendary Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Dan Hicks is widely acknowledged as one of the central defining figures in American roots music. Hicks has earned a reputation as a true original with his signature electicism and humor. He continues to carve his own way through a number of genres from proto-psychedelia to western swing and jazz; from tin pan alley to country blues, while always cultivating his own unique sound. The original Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks recorded five ground-breaking and Billboard-charting records for the Columbia, Blue Thumb and Warner Bros. labels.

They toured worldwide and Dan appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine three times. The newest incarnation of DH & HL released the wildly successful Beatin the Heat in 2000, featuring collaborations with Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones and Brian Setzer. USA Today called it “one of the blessings of the new millennium.” That release was followed by the live CD Alive & Lickin in 2001, and the late 2003 CD/DVD Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks Featuring An All Star Cast of Friends. That project reunited Hicks with virtually every musician he has ever played and recorded with. Both Mojo and Downbeat magazines rated it “Four Stars...one of the best CDs of 2004.” 2005 brought the newest studio release, Selected Shorts, featuring special guests Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Gibby Haynes, Jim Keltner and Van Dyke Parks. Widely touted as the band’s best CD yet -- New Yorker magazine remarked, “As great as his early masterpiece Where’s the Money? ... truly superb.”