NEW ORLEANS - JULY 26: Huey Lewis and the News perform onstage at the Mitsubishi Motors ArenaBowl Extravaganza during ArenaBowl XXII weekend on July 26, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Courtesy of Doug Benc/Getty Images)
It was supposed to be a ten-track album, but Huey Lewis’s hearing loss happened right in the middle of recording. Lewis has likened his deafness to hearing the world through a blown speaker, so fine-tuning recordings can’t be easy. The band’s tenth album was released as a seven-track work. The songs are quite diverse. You’ll hear a bit of blues, rock, country and funk. And overall, it’s just as fun as you’d expect from the group. It’s called Weather. Here’s more detail (and you can hear samples of the tracks!).