Origin Minneapolis Website www.dylanhicks.com | Name Dylan Hicks Role Singer | |
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Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, novelist, DJ Albums Alive With Pleasure, Poughkeepsie, Won People also search for 3 Pesos, The Honeydogs, Mason Jennings | ||
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Dylan Hicks (also sometimes known as the Governor of Fun) is an American singer-songwriter and novelist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- what a local music tv show 29 with Dylan Hicks and Three Pesos
- Dylan hicks prepares for making music at the whole music club
- Musical career
- Writing career
- Reception
- References
Dylan hicks prepares for making music at the whole music club
Musical career
Hicks' first three albums were released on the No Alternative label. He released a demo album entitled "Poughkeepsie" in 1998, which was described by Kristy Martin as "a sparkling demo of smart wordplay and pop sensibility." He followed this up with the album "Alive With Pleasure" in 2001. As a companion to his novel Boarded Windows, Hicks released an album entitled Sings Bolling Greene, which originated when Hicks started writing songs by Bolling Greene, one of the characters in the book. In the book, Greene is a country musician. About half of the songs on Sings Bolling Greene are written from Greene's perspective, while the remaining ones are about Greene.
Writing career
In 2012, Hicks' debut novel, Boarded Windows, was published by Coffee House Press. It is narrated by a nameless narrator, and is set in Minneapolis in the 1990s. He has also written for Citypages.
Reception
Courtney Algo and Lit Lyfe wrote in the Twin Cities Daily Planet that "fans of Hicks and rapier-sharp prose will find a great delight in Boarded Windows." A review in MinnPost described the book as "a vivid time capsule of those scruffier days of Twin Cities music fandom," referring to the 1990s.