In addition to his musical career, DeCicca also owns and operates a vocational rehabilitation agency that primarily serves the Hill Country and San Antonio areas of Texas, where he currently resides.
For The World featured, among others, guitarist Marc Ribot, singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, and harpist Mary Lattimore, as well as DeCicca's partner, Eve Searls, who appeared as a vocalist on the album's single, "Blue Eyed Baby.
[8] 2017 saw the Drag City release of Chris Gantry's At the House Of Cash, which was executive produced by DeCicca and featured contributions from Bill Callahan and Edith Frost.
In early 2021, DeCicca released, via digital platforms, a ten-song album titled The Unlikely Optimist And His Domestic Adventures, featuring collaborations with Augie Meyers as well as with Austin mainstay Ralph White.
[13] Tyler Wilcox, writing for Aquarium Drunkard, opined "The Unlikely Optimist is plainspoken without being plain, earthbound but floating free," and that it "isn't a record that grabs you by the collar with its greatness.
In 2023, DeCicca released his fifth solo album, New Shadows,[15] which Stereogum reported "features appearances from an eclectic assortment of musicians including Aquilles Navarro of Irreversible Entanglements, David Hidalgo and Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, Jeff Parker, Rosali, James Brandon Lewis, and Brian Harnetty.
The title track delves deeper into synthesizers and digital voice alteration than ever expected from a Jerry DeCicca project, lacing in saxophone and abundant guitar action too en route to on a sort of alternate-timeline ’80s movie soundtrack vibe.
"[17] In addition to his own songwriting and session work, DeCicca is a prolific producer and has been involved with the supervision of archival releases for labels such as Drag City and Numero.
Both with The Black Swans and as a solo artist, DeCicca has earned favorable reviews from publications such as Pitchfork, Mojo, Uncut, No Depression, Dusted, Aquarium Drunkard, Stereogum, Popmatters, and The Fader.