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Huey Lewis & the News keep rolling with more shows
After taking a break from the road in July, blue-collar rockers Huey Lewis and the News get busy with a late-summer run.
The group, which wraps up its latest round of touring on Sunday (6/28), gets back on the road on Aug. 1 for a non-stop month of dates that include multi-night stands in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. The group has also mapped out dates for September and November, including two California co-headlining stops with the Doobie Brothers.
Huey Lewis and the News' most recent album is the 2001 set "Plan B," the group's first collection of new material since 1991's "Hard at Play." "Plan B" hit stores in the U.K. in late April of this year, and the group followed the release with a short European tour in May.
Lewis is currently backed by original band members Johnny Colla (guitar, sax), Bill Gibson (drums), and Sean Hopper (keyboards), as well as longtime members John Pierce (bass) and Stef Burns (guitar). Lewis' horn section--known as the News Brothers--consists of Marvin McFadden (trumpet), Rob Sudduth (sax) and Ron Stallings (sax).
Pierce replaced original sunglasses-wearing bassist Mario Cipollina in the mid-'90s, while Burns began filling in for original guitarist Chris Hayes--who is now retired--during Lewis' 2000 tour. Hayes did, however, play guitar on "Plan B," and has occasionally performed live with the group.
"Sports," Lewis and the News' 1983 album, remains the group's most commercially successful release to date. It features the Top 10 hits "I Want a New Drug," "The Heart of Rock & Roll," "If This Is It" and "Heart and Soul," and has been certified seven-times platinum, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
