"My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz"
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The detail about “just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices” reads like process footage. Hicks frames arrangement as something that grows organically, almost conversationally, rather than arriving as a finished product. That’s subtext, too: he’s situating himself as a bandleader who resists bigness for its own sake, building texture the way you build trust with an audience.
Then comes the hinge: “emphasis on lyrics and singing.” In a culture that often treated lyrics as mood wallpaper, Hicks insists on intelligibility and character. He’s telegraphing that his songs are meant to be heard as stories and jokes and human observations, not just felt as vibes.
“Light kind of acoustic jazz” is the tell that he’s slipping past genre policing. “Light” isn’t apologetic; it’s strategic. It signals swing without solemnity, sophistication without the velvet-rope attitude. Hicks is staking out a middle path: music that’s musically literate, socially relaxed, and built for rooms where listening still counts.
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Hicks, Dan. "My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-stuff-was-more-of-a-folk-coffeehouse-thing-99582/.
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"My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-stuff-was-more-of-a-folk-coffeehouse-thing-99582/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
