{"id":481076,"date":"2019-01-18T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=781460"},"modified":"2019-01-18T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:03:20","slug":"huey-lewis-and-the-news-prep-first-album-of-new-songs-in-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/huey-lewis-and-the-news-prep-first-album-of-new-songs-in-18-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Huey Lewis and The News Prep First Album of New Songs in 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/huey-lewis-tour.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Huey Lewis &amp; The News have inked a deal with BMG to record their first album of original songs since 2001\u2019s <em>Plan B.<\/em> \u201cWe\u2019re very excited about our new album, and honestly feel that it\u2019s among our best work \u2013 we cannot wait to get it out to fans!\u201d Lewis said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re equally excited to be with BMG, whose reputation as a \u2018music-first\u2019 label precedes them admirably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year ago, Lewis was forced to cancel a 40-date tour after experiencing sudden hearing loss. \u201cI haven\u2019t come to grips with the fact that I may never sing again,\u201d Lewis told the <em>Today Show<\/em> in May. \u201cI\u2019m still hoping I\u2019m gonna get better. They say a positive attitude is important.\u201d Doctors believe that he is suffering from Meniere\u2019s, which causes severe disorientation, feelings of intense vertigo and hearing loss. Lewis first experienced the symptoms at a show in Dallas last March. \u201cAs I walked to the stage, it sounded like there was a jet engine going on,\u201d he said. \u201cI knew something was wrong. I couldn\u2019t find pitch. Distorted. Nightmare. It\u2019s cacophony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis did get onstage to sing \u201cHip To Be Square\u201d at a golf event in October, he hasn\u2019t done a full show in well over a year. \u201cI can\u2019t hear enough to sing, so we have no gigs booked,\u201d he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hueylewisandthenews.com\/wp\/?page_id=1038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote on his official website<\/a> earlier this month. \u201cI hope I can get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But his hearing problems didn\u2019t to prevent him from recording a new album. The disc is due out in the spring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/huey-lewis-and-the-news-new-album-781460\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huey Lewis &amp; The News have inked a deal with BMG to record their first album of original songs since 2001\u2019s Plan B. \u201cWe\u2019re very excited about our new album, and honestly feel that it\u2019s among our best work \u2013 we cannot wait to get it out to fans!\u201d Lewis said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 20:15:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}