Song of the Day 4/11: Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, “Where’s the Money?”

Turns out Donald Trump’s $175 million bond was posted by a company that isn’t licensed to do so, doesn’t have the capital required to back it up and doesn’t promise to pay up if Trump loses his appeal. That means that he’s once again running out of time to come up with someone else’s money.

Dan Hicks started playing guitar as a college student during the folk music revival of the late ’50s and early ’60s, then joined the San Francisco psychedelic band the Charlatans as their drummer. By the time he recorded his first album, “Original Recordings,” in 1969, he was back on guitar playing what he came to call “folk swing,” based on the popular music of the ’20s to ’40s.

He was most familiar to the broader public through his humorous tunes, like “How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?” After his 1973 LP “Last Train to Hicksville” he broke up his band and went away, seldom recording or appearing until re-emerging in the ’90s. He died in 2016.

This was the title track to his second LP, 1971’s “Where’s the Money?”