Smiling blonde woman pops out of a striped gift box with bright green tissue on a red background, flanked by green cursive text reading “Quelle Surprise!” and “I Love Betty!”

BetteBack Sept 2000: Bette Midler & Dan Hicks

In the early '70s, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks served up what he called "folk swing," a bracingly idiosyncratic…