Genre: Rock
Original Release: 5/6/1997
1. I Feel Like Singing
3:02
2. News From Up The Street
4:05
3. Where's The Money?
3:07
4. The Buzzard Was Their Friend
3:09
5. Reelin' Down
3:34
6. Dig A Little Deeper
3:04
7. Canned Music
8. Walkin' One And Only
2:45
9. The Innocent Bystander
3:59
10. I Scare Myself
5:36
11. Presently In The Past
3:11
12. You Got To Believe
2:55
13. I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande)
2:53
14. My Old Timey Baby
2:28
15. Sweetheart (Waitress In A Donut Shop)
2:35
16. Long Comma Viper
2:07
Just where to place the free-range music of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks -- are they country? jazz? rock? Western swing? comedy? -- has always been a nettlesome problem, confounding the public and hyphen-crazy critics alike. For Hicks and his all-acoustic band were certainly all of those genres and then some, a marvelous amalgam of American music with a large dollop of humor thrown in for good measure. Subtitled "The Blue Thumb Years, 1971-1973," this 16-track collection touches on all of the group's major stylistic bases and more, making this a greatest-hits album on a group who never really had a hit. Pulling half a dozen tracks from their debut album, Where's the Money? Read More
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