Nancy Hicks Pate
Nancy Hicks Pate is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and writer, and one of the five Hicks sisters of Clarkesville, Georgia, who sang together as the Hicks Sisters. Her sisters are Murphy Hicks Henry, Claire, Argen, and Laurie. A photograph in Murphy's book Pretty Good for a Girl shows Nancy, Murphy, Argen, and Laurie performing as the Hicks Sisters at the Mt. Laurel Festival in Clarkesville in 1975. She later played guitar in Red and Murphy & Co., the band led by Murphy and her husband, Red Henry. In the 1990s she sang and played guitar in Louisa Branscomb's Atlanta band Born G____, alongside Jane Baxter, Ricky Rakestraw, and later Norm Oglesby and David Blackmon. The band played the Olympic Village at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She wrote a regular column for the Women in Bluegrass newsletter, mixing personal stories with commentary on recording, performing, motherhood, and band life.
In the newsletter
- No. 1 September 1994
- No. 2 January-March 1995
- No. 5 Oct.—Dec. 1995
- No. 6 Winter 1996
- No. 8 Summer 1996
- No. 9 Fall 1996
- No. 10 Winter 1997
- No. 11 Spring 1997
- No. 12 Summer 1997
- No. 13 Fall 1997
- No. 14 Winter 1998
- No. 15 Spring 1998
- No. 16 Fall 1998
- No. 17 Fall 1998
- No. 18 Winter 1999
- No. 20 Summer 1999
Wrote
- Guest Columnist Nancy Hicks Pate (No. 1)
- Guest Columnist Nancy Hicks Pate: Breathing Out (No. 1)
- Guest Columnist Nancy Hicks Pate: Breathing In (No. 1)
- Nancy Hicks Pate: Sugarbabies in the Studio (No. 2)
- The WIBB Board (No. 3)
- On Singing At Funerals (No. 4)
- Radio Daze (No. 5)
- Studio Salon (No. 6)
- Maternity Guitar (No. 7)
- Olympic Moments (No. 8)
- Campfire Girl (No. 9)
- Christmas Present (No. 10)
- Booking Blues (No. 11)
- SINGLE AGAIN (No. 12)
- PUT DOWN THE DUCKY (No. 13)
- One Good Arrow (No. 14)
- What's in a Name? (No. 15)
- Fair of Face (No. 16)
- PLUGGED IN (No. 17)
- Mixing It Up (No. 20)