Career

Early years

Hickman is a native of Redlands in San Bernardino County in California"s Inland Empire. Prior to his tenure in Cracker, Hickman had stints in various California bands including The Unforgiven and The Dangers. His often imitated signature sound, influenced by punk rock, surf guitar and "Bakersfield Country" sound, is played on a 1978 Les Paul guitar.

In addition to his role with Cracker, Hickman engages in solo work and various side projects such as the Hickman-Dalton Gang (a collaboration with Jim Dalton of Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers and The Railbenders), All Thumbs Trio (with Chuck Garvey and Gibb Droll) and Crazysloth, an Arizona-based band.

He has one full film score to his cr (River Red (1998)), and several of the songs that he has co-written with David Lowery have been used in films. In 2005, Hickman released his first solo album, Palmhenge.

On July 3, 2012 he released his second solo album, Tilting.