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BY VANESSA SALVIA Alive and Lickin’ Dan Hicks salutes Folk’s Golden Era in Corvallis C and Glover and Peter, Paul and Mary, orvallis … the Willamette cours- among others. ing through the heart of town, the For those of you whose knowledge of park right next to the river, nice music goes back only as far as, oh, restaurants and a small town feel. A Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Dan Hicks Saturday night concert in Corvallis is a began his career as a drummer for the San good excuse to frolic in the home of the Francisco rock band The Charlatans in the Beavers, especially when the concert is 1960s. Along the way, he dabbled in what one by Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. you might call proto-psychedelia, This weekend, Hicks and the Licks will explored western swing and jazz and had salute “The Folk Years,” that revivalist period his hand in country blues. His hits “I Scare in American history that saw ordinary working Myself” (a 1984 people picking up gui- Thomas Dolby tars and banjos, strum- hit) and “I’m an ming Ramblin’ Jack Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks Old Cowhand Elliott at parties, hum- with Terry Robb (From the Rio ming Joan Baez. This 8 pm Saturday, 9/8 Grande)” only evening is billed as “a Corvallis High School Theater hint at the diversi- special salute to the $27.50 adv., $30 door ty he’s capable of history of folk music For show information his in music. from one of acoustic call (541) 750-7990 In 2000, the music’s most accom- newest incarna- plished performers ... tion of Hicks and with a reunited band.” his band released Beatin’ the Heat, featur- Hicks and his band have created a ing collaborations with Bette Midler, musical revue; they rekindle not only their Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee own classics but those of a number of Jones and Brian Setzer. Alive & Lickin’ respected folk artists. If your passion for followed in 2001. He released a CD/DVD the Limelighters or The Kingston Trio has in 2003 entitled Dan Hicks and The Hot never wavered, regardless of the length of Licks Featuring An All Star Cast of your hair, this show will remind you why Friends that reunited Hicks with virtually you remain ever loyal. Hicks will revive all of his past collaborators. Selected songs by those two classic favorites as Shorts, 2005’s studio release, features well as Mississippi John Hurt, Jim guest performances from Willie Nelson, Kweskin, Pete Seeger and the Weavers, Jimmy Buffett, Gibby Haynes, Jim The Roof Top Singers, Buffy Sainte- Keltner and Van Dyke Parks. Marie, Lightin’ Hopkins, Koerner, Ray ew SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 33
