Banner reading 'The Divine Miss M' with red-script 'Bette Midler' beside a black?and?white portrait of Bette Midler with red lips on the right.

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…