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A couple years ago, Huey Lewis acknowledges, the glass was more than half empty. The Meniere's disease he had contracted several decades ago had turned into a full-fledged disability, and, unable to hear properly enough to sing at a January 2018 corporate show in Dallas, his performing career appeared to be over.
"Y'know, there's a lot of people way worse off than I am -- I know that," says Lewis. After care at various facilities, including the Stanford Ear Institute and the Mayo Clinic, and making dietary changes, he uses bluetooth hearing aids and ranks his abilities on a 1-10 scale that changes almost daily.
"The disturbing part is that even though I've never been a great singer I always was reliable. I'm a workhorse -- always have been. It's a big disappointment, I must say. I feel like I let the boys down a bit. But Bill said it best -- 'It's a good thing it didn't happen 20 years ago.'" at its own Trout Farm Studio in Marin County, with longtime collaborator Bob Clearmountain mixing.
"A lot of it's very arbitrary -- just like a hit record, really," Lewis explains. "It's timing. And for the first time now, you don't need great, rave reviews to have a hit. You used to need rave reviews; Now you can get by with C reviews and still have a hit. That's a change. There's a number of shows that got kind of lukewarm reviews that did well, business-wise.
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