Huey Lewis And The News "Weather (Gatefold Cardboard Sleeve, USA, BMG, 538543642)"

Weather is the tenth studio album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released on February 14, 2020, by New Hulex under license to BMG Rights Management.

The album consists of songs recorded before Lewis' 2018 hearing loss from Ménière's disease. Seven tracks had been completed before work on the album was indefinitely halted, and the band eventually decided to release the record as is.

Huey Lewis and the News had not released an album in nearly ten years and had not recorded an album of new material since 2001's Plan B. Plans for a new album had been circulating since 2012 when Lewis announced a new song they wrote called "While We're Young." "But now we need nine more," Lewis explained. While touring in the mid-2010s, the addition of a song titled "Her Love Is Killing Me" had been included in the band's setlist. By the end of 2017, Huey Lewis and the News had recorded a handful of songs for a new album, and it was anticipated that it would be released sometime in 2018.

However, in January 2018, when Huey Lewis was diagnosed with Ménière's disease, the band cancelled all future shows and placed the album on hold. A year later, it was announced the band had signed with BMG to release the new album.

"Her Love Is Killin' Me" (originally titled "Your Love Is Killing Me") was released as the first single in September 2019. In December 2019, "While We're Young" was made available to download and stream along with the announcement of the album's title and release date of February 14, 2020.

Track listing

1. "While We're Young" Johnny Colla/Huey Lewis/John Pierce   3:45
2. "Her Love Is Killin' Me" Colla/Chris Hayes/Lewis   3:41
3. "I Am There for You" Colla/Lewis  4:13
4. "Hurry Back Baby"    Bill Gibson/Lewis   3:55
5. "Remind Me Why I Love You Again" Colla/Gibson/Hayes/Lewis   3:20
6. "Pretty Girls Everywhere" Eugene Church/Thomas Williams   3:23
7. "One of the Boys" Colla/James Harrah/Lewis    3:48

Total length: 26:01

Gatefold card-sleeve. Made in USA.

Recording information:

Producer – Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla

Huey Lewis And The News "Soulsville (USA, W.O.W. Records, None)"

Soulsville is the ninth studio album from Huey Lewis and the News and the band's first since Plan B in 2001. The album was released on October 18, 2010, in the United Kingdom and Europe and November 2, 2010, in the United States. The album, a tribute to the artists and music of Stax Records, was the brainchild of the band's manager, Bob Brown. As lead singer Huey Lewis explained, "the public isn't clamoring for new Huey Lewis & the News material". Brown and the band decided "it would be cooler to go into the [Stax] catalog a little deeper and find songs that people hadn't heard and capture them faithfully". This album features new guitarists Stef Burns and Bill Hinds and baritone saxophonist Johnnie Bamont, replacing Chris Hayes and the late Ron Stallings.

Huey Lewis and the News recorded Soulsville at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, in early 2010. One of the original Stax co-engineers, Jim Gaines, who also engineered the band's best-selling albums, Sports and Fore!, produced the album with the band.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes, "what makes the album successful is that Huey Lewis & the News don't choose the obvious tunes", citing that their love for the music is infectious and the album "winds up like a bunch of old friends having fun revisiting their favorite tunes." Rick Moore of American Songwriter also praises the selection of "songs that are a little more obscure", calling it "a solid collection of 14 tunes from the Stax/Volt heyday" and a nice homage by the News. J. Matthew Cobb of SoulTracks thinks the song selections are a perfect fit for Lewis's voice and show how rich and vast the Stax catalog is, calling the album "one of the most aesthetically sound cover albums of 2010". Jason Heller of The A.V. Club completely disagrees by claiming Soulsville doesn't have soul and only a few of the songs rise "above the level of really good karaoke." He rips Lewis' renditions of Solomon Burke's (who died shortly before the album was released) "Got to Get You Off My Mind" and "Cry to Me", describing it as "a pathetic epitaph for the late King of Rock & Soul."

Track listing

1. "Don't Fight It" Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett 2:57
2. "Got to Get You Off My Mind" Dolores Burke, Solomon Burke, J.B. Moore 2:50
3. "Free" Alana Davis, Ed Tuton 3:53
4. "Respect Yourself" (duet with Dorothy Combs Morrison) Luther Ingram, Mack Rice 3:41
5. "Cry to Me" Bert Russell 2:59
6. "Just One More Day" Cropper, Otis Redding, McEvoy Robinson 3:25
7. "Never Found a Girl" Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell, Booker T. Jones 2:53
8. "Soulsville" Isaac Hayes 3:37
9. "Little Sally Walker" Rufus Thomas 2:11
10. "I Want To (Do Everything for You)" Joe Tex 3:13
11. "Just the One (I've Been Looking For)" Cropper, Floyd, Isbell 2:55
12. "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You" Jerry Akines, Johnnie Bellmon, Reginald Turner, Victor Drayton 2:51
13. "Never Like This Before" Hayes, Jones, David Porter 2:57
14. "Grab This Thing" Cropper, Isbell 3:14

Released in a recycled cardboard gatefold sleeve

Recording information:

Recorded and Mixed at: Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee

Additional Recording: Way Out West Recording, San Rafael, California and Morningside Studios, San Anselmo, California

Mastering: L. Nix Mastering

The album cover was designed by Memphis folk artist Lamar Sorrento. It presents a caricature of a Memphis street corner, complete with musicians, rib joints, and WDIA, the country's first black radio station.

Huey Lewis And The News "Greatest Hits & Videos (CD+DVD, USA, Capitol Records, 09463-63380-2-6)"

Greatest Hits & Videos is a greatest hits album by Huey Lewis and the News, released on May 23, 2006. It contains the band's most popular songs and music videos. The compilation is a follow-up to the band's previous greatest hits compilation, Time Flies... The Best of Huey Lewis & the News from the previous decade.

A version without the DVD was released as Greatest Hits with different cover artwork.

Track listing

CD

1. "The Heart of Rock & Roll" (Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis)
2. "I Want a New Drug" (Chris Hayes, Lewis)
3. "The Power of Love" (from the Back to the Future soundtrack) (Hayes, Lewis, Colla)
4. "Jacob's Ladder" (Bruce Hornsby, John Hornsby)
5. "Stuck with You" (Hayes, Lewis)
6. "Doing It All for My Baby" (Mike Duke, Phil Cody)
7. "If This Is It" (Colla, Lewis)
8. "Do You Believe in Love" (Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
9. "Heart and Soul" (Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn)
10. "Back in Time" (from the Back to the Future soundtrack) (Colla, Hayes, Sean Hopper, Lewis)
11. "Perfect World" (Alex Call)
12. "I Know What I Like" (Hayes, Lewis)
13. "Trouble in Paradise" (from the We Are the World album - live in San Francisco 2/21/85) (Colla, Bill Gibson, Hayes, Hopper, Lewis, Mario Cipollina)
14. "It's Alright" (from the Curtis Mayfield tribute album People Get Ready) (Mayfield)
15. "Cruisin'" (Huey Lewis duet with Gwyneth Paltrow, from the Duets soundtrack) (Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin)
16. "Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do" (Duke)
17. "Small World" (featuring Stan Getz) (Hayes, Lewis)
18. "But It's Alright" (J.J. Jackson, Pierre Tubbs)
19. "Hip to Be Square" (Gibson, Hopper, Lewis)
20. "Couple Days Off" (Hayes, Lewis, Geoffrey Palmer)
21. "Workin' for a Livin'" (Hayes, Lewis)

DVD

1. "Do You Believe in Love" (previously unreleased)
2. "Heart and Soul"
3. "I Want a New Drug"
4. "The Heart of Rock & Roll"
5. "If This Is It"
6. "Bad Is Bad"
7. "The Power of Love"
8. "Stuck with You"
9. "Doing It All for My Baby" (original long version)
10. "Workin' for a Livin'" (live at the Country Club, Reseda, CA, 4/29/82)

Huey Lewis And The News "Live At 25 (USA, Rhino Records, R2 74630)"

Live at 25 is a live album by Huey Lewis and the News celebrating the 25-year anniversary since the band's formation in 1979. The performance was recorded in December 2004 at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California. The album was released along with a separate DVD in 2005 by Rhino Records. This was the last album the band made with saxophonist Ron Stallings, who died in 2009.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic says Live at 25 "is designed to be less a historical document than a nostalgic souvenir for longtime fans, capturing the group at a quarter-century mark." He believes "the song selection is good, the band sounds tight and professional, the production is clean and punchy, and while it's never especially engaging, it is an enjoyable performance."

Tracklist:

1. "The Heart of Rock & Roll" (Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla) – 5:02
2. "So Little Kindness" (Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis, Rob Sudduth) – 4:48
3. "Thank You #19" (Huey Lewis, Sean Hopper) – 5:45
4. "I Want a New Drug" / "Small World" (Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis) – 8:40
5. "If This Is It" (Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla) – 3:50
6. "Power of Love" (Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla) – 5:22
7. "Do You Believe in Love" (Robert John Lange) – 4:29
8. "Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner or Later)" (Bill Gibson, Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla, Mario Cipollina, Sean Hopper) – 4:02
9. "It's All Right" (Curtis Mayfield) – 3:36
10. "Bad Is Bad" (Alex Call, Huey Lewis, John McFee, Johnny Ciambotti, Michael Schriener, Sean Hopper) – 4:01
11. "Heart and Soul" (Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn) – 4:32
12. "But It's Alright" (J.J. Jackson, Pierre Tubbs) - 3:34
13. "(Too) Hip to Be Square" (Bill Gibson, Huey Lewis, Sean Hopper) – 4:07
14. "We're Not Here for a Long Time (We're Here for a Good Time)" (Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla) – 4:55
15. "Back in Time" (Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla, Sean Hopper) - 3:42
16. "Doing It All for My Baby" (Mike Duke, Phil Cody) – 4:20

Recording information:

Recorded at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Chico, Ca, December 14 & 15, 2004.

Huey Lewis And The News "Plan B (USA, Silvertone Records, 01241-41767-2)"

Plan B is the eighth studio album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 2001.

This was the last album to feature founding member/guitarist Chris Hayes, who performed on the album but then left after work was completed. It was also the last News album for Ron Stallings, who died in 2009.

Track listing

1. "We're Not Here for a Long Time (We're Here for a Good Time)" (Johnny Colla, Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis) – 3:53
2. "My Other Woman" (Colla, Lewis) – 4:06
3. "I Ain't Perfect" (Bill Gibson, Lewis) – 4:33
4. "When I Write the Book" (cover of Rockpile) (Billy Bremner, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe) – 3:44
5. "I'm Not in Love Yet" (Duet with Wynonna) (Hayes, Lewis) – 4:28
6. "Thank You, No. 19" (Sean Hopper, Lewis) – 4:52
7. "Plan B" (Colla, Lewis) – 3:27
8. "The Rhythm Ranch" (Colla, Lewis) – 4:49
9. "Let Her Go and Start Over" (Mike Duke) – 4:47
10. "I Never Think About You" (Hayes, Lewis, John Pierce) – 5:16
11. "So Little Kindness" (Hayes, Lewis, Rob Sudduth) – 4:21

• Re-recording; original version on Time Flies

Recording information:

Producers – Huey Lewis and Johnny Colla

Engineers – David Boucher, Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis, Merrit Pelkey and Jim "Watts" Vereecke.

Mixed by Bob Clearmountain

Digital Editing – Chris Haggerty

Mastered by Robert Hadley and Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California).

Photography – Aaron Rapoport