Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks: Where’s The Money
John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 3 July 1971
DAN HICKS is a person of no mean strangeness, a genuine original, and one of the greatest superheroes in all of 20th century popular music. Only in imbecile could be excused for not getting hep to Dan and his torrid accompanists, His Hot Licks, at his earliest convenience.
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