Where is huey lewiss ranch in montana

You could, like me, not play sports and play the hell out of Sports. Huey represented a sensibly sexy mainstream masculinity: dimpled chin, haircut that rejected any recognizable trend, body just Soloflexed enough to pull off a red suit. Summer was possibly the greatest summer in pop-music history, due to the genre gumbo of MTV and Top Forty radio. I nod excitedly, a guy in his forties who devoured the album when he was twelve.

He grew up mostly in Marin County, California. If you are of a certain age, this is a thing you know, because Casey Kasem would say it over and over during the year and a half Sports pitched singles up the Top Forty. Its proximity to San Francisco brought in its share of hippies, a counterculture for Huey and his friends to rebel against. He left the West Coast after high school to busk around Europe for a year.

Then he was off to Cornell University in upstate New York, before dropping out sophomore year in favor of more travel and more busking. This Huey Lewis shit is here today, gone tomorrow. And I thought, How liberating. It makes sense. He convinced his label to pay for an unknown Stevie Ray Vaughan to open for the Sports tour.

Nowadays, Hornsby drops by the ranch and plays some Bill Evans tunes on the living-room piano. His right one went out just before a gig in Boston in the mid-eighties, and a specialist in San Francisco told him to get used to it.

Huey was backstage at a News gig in Dallas, and all at once the opening act turned into distortion. No change. My neighbor is a big musical theater buff. They went away and wrote this really good screenplay. And immediately we had momentum. We hired a director. We got financing. The critics obviously matter a lot in New York. And, you have to get the right theater. And they all have technical considerations.

Like they only allow so many musicians. Fingers crossed. And his flaw is that he grew up in our neighborhood and was a big fan of the band! Then I go to New York to do publicity because I have a new record coming out. Michael Keaton is in it.

Brad Paisley mimes the guitar solo, and Andy Garcia lip-synchs a line from the St. Andrews golf course. And, I mostly just shot everybody with my cell phone. It turned out great. We were making a record all this time, slowly but surely. And I also like to fish, you know what I mean? We were playing 75 shows a year and recording at our leisure, real slowly, because you have to write the songs, and the songs are hard.

They just have to come. I was never that good to begin with. I was still improving two years ago. And in fact, the longer we stayed away, the better. So we were quietly staying out of the limelight, playing 75 shows and recording an album over the last eight years. And then this happened. So I said, we might as well release the record. HL: Three or four of the tunes are absolutely among our best work. MP: Nice to be trending up still. HL: It was great. This [he points to his ear] has ruined everything.

This has absolutely ruined everything. I try not to let it get me down. In the first two months of this, I was suicidal. I can honestly share that with you. I actually contemplated my demise. You know, like pills. I figured pills were the easiest way to go. I mean, would I have? HL: Yes, I had vertigo 35 years ago. I had to cancel a gig.

Then five years later I had another huge vertigo bout, and five years after that another huge vertigo bout. HL: It has. I can read and I have devices to hook up to my phone through my hearing aids.

But I watched the Democratic debates. I made myself watch the debates. MP: Was there an awakening or any moment after those two months that it changed for you? HL: Well, no, I got better. What happened was I got better for about five days. And then I got crappy again.

I gauge it one to ten. Ten is what I was before this happened. When I first had my right ear go out about 30 years ago, I went to an old, wise E. You just lost your hearing. Sometimes it comes back. But usually in the first two weeks. Brian Wilson has one ear. You have to go get a second opinion. Tom Brokaw, bless his heart, even made some calls for me.

Steve Rauch. Living Ayurveda [Indian alternative medicine]. Cranial massage and essential oils. Low salt diet, all organic, no caffeine. No chocolate. But none of it works. We went fishing the day before yesterday with my neighbor Andy Carlson and my ranch manager Joe and we had a great day on the river and everything.

I had fun. But I had fun. It affects everything. And when my hearing is good, it feels so good to have good hearing. I just thank my lucky stars and just hope and pray that it stabilizes, which it never does. HL: Tom McGuane is one of my favorite authors in the whole world.

Tom McGuane is kind of a new friend. I just love his writing. Just exchanging emails with him is wonderful. MP: He does a great job painting the picture. You feel like you are in there and it is a truly Western voice.

HL: I wrote a song for the new musical. What are their goals? And then boom! I had this idea on the way home. I think about writing other stuff. My mother was this amazing character. Her story needs to be told. You know, it still is.

Joel Coen and Frances McDormand. But, you know, writing is really hard work. My professional life is exactly the same as my real professional life. But my personal life is not. I live in Hollywood. Reality shows, public appearances, ignominious endorsements, etc.

BS: It sounds hilarious! You seem to be having a blast with that. So you have this all sketched out, all these episodes? HL: I have the first episode written. HL: And I think I can act even when my hearing is this bad. BS: We read a story about you hitchhiking across the country and flying to Europe. As I said, my mom was a hippie. Born in Poland, escaped during the war, was a commercial artist in New York, and then dropped out. We moved to Marin County in And my dad was worried about me because, you know, I was He convinced me that I should go away to prep school on the east coast.

I was a year young because I had skipped second grade. And I did. But the judge ruled that I would be allowed to go to this school even though my mom had custody. And then I turned 12 years old. Coat and tie, all boys, and neither one of my parents ever visited there. So, you know, that was it for me. And it was tough, man, at first. But after four years, I was accepted to Cornell and was going to go to the engineering school.

I had a kind of a math aptitude that I cared very little for. He really gave me a lot of confidence to choose my own path. Blacksmith Brewing Company. Hoyt Axton's House. Massa Home Center. Other C. Wamsley House. Rocky Mountain Laboratories. Traveler's Rest. Lolo Pass.

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