Last week I played at a little club in New Hope, Pa. The club had opened in 1972 and it still had a really cool vibe from that era. On the walls they had posters of all the acts that had played there: Jonathan Edwards and Steve Forbert. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Norah Jones. John Gorka and Rhett Miller. Penn and Teller and Commander Cody. But the picture that caught my eye was of Dan Hicks. Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks were one of my favorite bands of that era. Incredible musicianship, intricate harmonies, and clever wordplay, their music was unlike anything else that was heard at the time. I used to call it “good-timey music.” And I hadn’t listened for a while. So when I got home from that gig, I spent the following week listening to the two Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks albums that I owned and watching them whatever YouTube videos that existed. So I thought that for this Sunday I would do a Hot Licks song. I don’t have all the instruments or the female harmonies, but I plowed on. I hope you like it.
Another Sunday Morning Tune
Original song: “Headed Straight to Nowhere”
Most of my Sunday Morning Tunes are covers of other people’s songs. This week, however, I’m putting up an original song. Hope you like it.
California Dreamin’
“All the leaves are brown\
and the sky is gray …”