I Scare Myself

'We won’t leave any stone unturned here. We’ll get to all the stones, because I’m a giver.'   Dan Hicks 'There are lots of people who can point to music on the shelf. Some like to light candles to it, others seek only to snuf them out. Dan burned them all brightly, and here is his tale.'   Elvis Costello, from his foreword to this book Dan Hicks didn’t have his heart set on a career in music. It all just sort of happened to him. It didn’t hurt, of course, that he was in the right place