 Later, Hicks' own group, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, went on to release colorful narrative songs like I Scare Myself and Canned Music. We got Dan to speak to us from a studio in San Francisco. I like jazz all the way. I still do. And that was my main interest. And then I picked up folk guitar later. So that kind of hit the cowboy thing a little bit. I started playing when I was about 20.