What: Twisted Folk Concert Series Presents: Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks!
Where: Twisted
Oak Winery, 4280 Red Hill Rd at Hwy 4, Vallecito
When: Saturday,
July 13th, 2013 – 7:30pm. Gates open 6:30pm
Ticket
Information:
Tickets
$25 advance ($22 Twisted Few wine club members), or $30 at the gate, if
available.
Children
12 and under are admitted free of charge.
For more
info, or to purchase tickets:
209-736-9080, twistedoak.com/concerts
Contact:
For
questions about featured musicians, contact:
Maria Camillo, maria@twistedoak.com
For
questions about Twisted Oak Winery, contact: Jeff Stai, jds@twistedoak.com
Twisted
Oak Winery
is pleased to announce the next concert of our 2013 Twisted Folk Concert Series
– the unique and legendary Dan Hicks and
the Hot Licks.
“Just like many of our wines, Dan Hicks
takes many different elements and fuses them into a new whole that is both
tasty and fun,” said winery co-owner Jeff Stai. “Whether it’s folk, jazz,
country, swing, bluegrass, pop, or even gypsy music, Dan Hicks makes it his own
unique sound.”
A hot dinner will be available for
purchase, along with yummy Twisted Oak wine, brownies by Wren Catering, popcorn,
and soft drinks. Concertgoers are welcome to bring their own picnics but we ask
that no outside alcoholic beverages be brought in.
Seating at Twisted Folk concerts is
outdoor festival style, first-come, first-served – bring a low beach-type chair
or a blanket. We’re on top of a hill and there is always an evening breeze – it
can get a little chilly after dark so please plan ahead.
Twisted Oak Winery is located in the
foothills of Calaveras County, and specializes in wines made from Mediterranean
varieties like Tempranillo, Viognier, and Petite Sirah. Our concert venue,
located at the winery in Vallecito, sits on a hilltop that commands a sweeping
view of the Sierra Nevada and the surrounding foothills, presided over by a
350-year old California Blue Oak that graces the label of every wine we bottle.
Beginning as a drummer in the seminal 60’s San
Francisco rock band The Charlatans, and
continuing with his unique and legendary Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Dan Hicks is widely acknowledged as one
of the defining figures in American roots music. Having earned a reputation as
a true original with his signature eclecticism and humor, Hicks continues to
carve his way through a number of genres from proto-psychedelia to western swing and jazz, from tin pan alley to country blues --
all the while 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.
Throughout
the 60s and 70s there was no one who sounded at all like Dan Hicks & the
Hot Licks, and remarkably, nearly 40 years later, there still isn't. We now
find ourselves again in an age of introspective sensitive
singer-songwriters. Luckily for us,
throughout the past decade and amidst the new wave of freak folk that prides
itself on its eclecticism, Dan has re-assembled the Hot Licks. Getting back into the swing of regularly
recording and touring, he has proven once again that the king of hipster-chic
will always be Dan Hicks.
This
newest incarnation of Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks 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.
Late
2003 saw the DVD/CD release of Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks - Featuring An All
Star Cast of Friends, a spectacular concert and video project that 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 next studio release Selected Shorts, featuring special guests
Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Gibby Haynes, Jim Keltner and Van Dyke Parks. It
was widely touted as the band’s best CD to date. As The New Yorker magazine
remarked, “As great as his early masterpiece Where’s the Money?...truly
superb.”
Dan
Hicks and the Hot Licks tenth studio CD in 2009, Tangled Tales, was produced by
Grammy-winner Chris Goldsmith (Blind Boys of Alabama). The widely acclaimed release
on Surfdog Records features all new Dan Hicks original songs and special guests
David Grisman, Roy Rogers, and Charlie Musselwhite, among others. To quote
Daily Variety, “Dan Hicks is at the top of his game…unlike many pop artists
today, a new studio album from Dan Hicks is like a new painting from Picasso.”
The very
first and long-awaited Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks Christmas album was released
in October 2010 – Crazy For Christmas,
also produced by Chris Goldsmith, was lauded by NPR’s Fresh Air, the NY and LA
Times, and The Washington Post. Called one of the Best of 2010 by the Village
Voice, Crazy For Christmas also landed on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart.
Perhaps
the Minneapolis Star Tribune sums it all up… “Dan Hicks is the eternal hipster,
purveyor of the drollest and most swingin’ tunes the rock generation ever
enjoyed.”
Show us
the way, Dan.
