Huey Lewis & The News

BMG reissues Huey Lewis & The News' Plan B on CD.  Plan B marked the group's first album of original studio material in a decade - their last full album, 1994's Four Chords and Seven Years Ago, was all covers - but the spark was still there: Mike Duke's "Let Her Go and Start Over" reached the Top 40 of Billboard's adult contemporary chart, and songs like "We're Not Here for a Long Time (We're Here for a Good Time)" and "So Little Kindness" (first recorded for a greatest hits record in 1996) became fan favorites as well as latter-day concert staples. Plan B also marked the end of an era for The News: the last album recorded with longtime guitarist/songwriter Chris Hayes. (Hayes' writing credits appear on several of Weather's tracks.)