Today, I’m handing the show over to Sara Hickman, an artiste I brought to Elektra Records back in 1989. We met at a club in Kansas City and it took only 5 minutes before I decided I wanted to work with her – that voice, her personality, the way she engaged an audience – so I picked up her independent album Equal Scary People for Elektra, and we quickly followed it up with Shortstop, which spawned a top 3 hit on the A/C charts, a couple of appearances on Johnny Carson and her own VH1 special. Since then, Sara’s released about 20 albums and 3 dvds most of which are available at sarahickman.com
Her songs have been covered by Robert Earl Keen, the Flatlanders, Marcia Ball, Edie Brickell and someone who knows a thing or two about songwriting, Willie Nelson,to name just a few, and musicians as diverse as the Meters, Brave Combo’s Carl Finch, Angelo Badalamenti, Supertramp’s John Helliwell, David Batteau, guitarists Adrian Belew, Jennifer Batten, Danny Gatton, and singers Kelly Willis, Shawn Colvin and Ruthie Foster have all appeared on Sara’s albums with Sara herself showing up on over 20 albums by others including ones by Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ian Matthews, Josh Alan Friedman and a tribute album honoring Nanci Griffith. In 2010, the Texas State Commission on the Arts appointed her
Official Texas State Musician and Sara’s always raising money and volunteering for charitable causes like the International Rescue Committee, Terrewode Women’s Hospital, Amnesty International, the NAACP and several other noteworthy institutions both here and in Uganda and El Salvador.
She’s as good a person as you’ll ever find, anywhere, and has wide-ranging and excellent musical taste. It’s my pleasure, ladies & gentlemen, to welcome Sara Hickman to WPKN.
TODAY, FRIDAY Jan 17th, 1pm (EST): PURE Presents “Sara Hickman”
featuring Amy Rigby, Bebel Gilberto, Billie Eilish, Cassandra Wilson, Claire & the Reasons, Crowded House, Davíd Garza, David Mead, Domestic Science Club, Flight of the Concords, Flora & Fawna, Janelle Monáe, Jane Siberry, Jeff Goldblum & Sarah Silverman, Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie, Marvin Etzioni & Maria McKee, Mike Doughty, Next of Kin, Parthenon Huxley, Peggy Lee, Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan, Petty Booka, popMantra, Rain Perry, the Roches, Rodney Crowell, Shawn Hook, Ssion, St. Even, Two Nice Girls, Viagra Boys, the Wallflowers, William Shatner, Willie Nelson and… A WHOLE LOT MORE!!!GET SOME. WPKN, Bridgeport, CT – 89.5fm on your radio, or wpkn.org on the ’net
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