{"id":25930,"date":"2025-01-13T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25930"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:07:07","slug":"music-sports-fore-huey-lewis-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25930","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Sports &amp; Fore, Huey Lewis &amp; The News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2950-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25926\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2950-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2950-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2950-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2950-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_07_threehalf-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25928\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_07_threehalf-1-2.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_07_threehalf-1-2-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t recall exactly what prompted me to suddenly want to listen to some Huey Lewis &amp; The News. But I\u2019m glad the urge came upon me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2949-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25927\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2949-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2949-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2949-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2949-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25929\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-2.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-2-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The best songs on this album &#8211; Hip To Be Square and The Power Of Love &#8211; are six star affairs. All time classics, of the Pop variety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album isn\u2019t uniformly brilliant. And there are things about the production &#8211; the drum sound (and as a drummer, that <em>really<\/em> matters to me!) &#8211; that date it. Some of the keyboard sounds, likewise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huey mentions his version (and the songwriter\u2019s original) of \u2018Doin\u2019 The Best For My Baby\u2019, on his What\u2019s In My Bag Amoeba Records video\u2026 This, and numbers like Happy To Be Stuck With You, are real feel good heart warmers. Not classics, perhaps? But solid, and yet also cosy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are, however, a few \u2018album tracks\u2019 here that I\u2019ve grown to <em>really<\/em> love. The acapella \u2018Naturally\u2019 is really wonderful. \u2018Forest For The Trees\u2019 speaks to me, as a person who\u2019s battled depression (thanks, Huey &amp; co!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the final track, \u2018It\u2019s As Simple As That\u2019, really speaks to me. With its themes of money struggles, ageing, married life, and so on. This last is written by Tower of Power dudes, Kupca and Castillo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FOOTNOTE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecreativeindependent.com\/people\/musician-huey-lewis-on-grattitude-pop-music-and-making-the-best-of-a-bad-situation\/\">This is very interesting<\/a>, and worth reading. In the linked piece Huey talks about his recent hearing loss, and such ideas as gratitude. He\u2019s a terrific person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t recall exactly what prompted me to suddenly want to listen to some Huey Lewis &amp; The News. But I\u2019m glad the urge came upon me. The best songs on this album &#8211; Hip To Be Square and The Power Of Love &#8211; are six star affairs. All time classics, of the Pop variety. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Sports &amp; Fore, Huey Lewis &amp; The News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6Ke","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25931,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930\/revisions\/25931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}