The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Gary Clark Jr. On Collaborating with Stevie Wonder | Huey Lewis' Music Hits Broadway

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

Grammy-winning musician, Gary Clark Jr., joins Jon Stewart to talk about his new album, "JPEG-RAW" and his experience collaborating with Stevie Wonder. Plus, music legend Huey Lewis chats with Jordan Klepper about his music catalog inspiring the Broadway musical, "The Heart of Rock and Roll." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as

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Please welcome Gary Clark Jr. Gary Clark, Jr. Gary, I, so you know, I, so you know how much I love your music and what you do. I've heard. I, I, you have heard. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, that, I, I, I, I, I, the the t. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I love your music and what you do. I've heard. You have heard. I bother Gary actually quite frequently because I'm such a fan of yours and because I love

the music. But this album, JPEG is, I just feel like it's a masterpiece. Thank you. Like you killed it, dude. It's so good. Thank you. I kind of felt that way, but it's good to hear somebody say it out loud. Do you, do, when you are, because it is a, not solitary process, but you don't have people

really responding live or anything. You're writing, I guess, in a environment without an audience. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is kind of terrifying. Because in my own world, I think it's the best thing ever. But you never know until album drop days and people can be like, nah, we don't want it. But it's been good so far. You could always, if you needed reinforcement or any kind of comment, obviously you have my number. Yeah, yeah. And you're more than welcome to use it. Okay. Well, also, you know,

you know, here Brett you're doing this drum and thing, so. Oh, I'm killing it. If you need to back up. Oh, that'd be a kid. And I have a van if we need to travel to do stuff. Absolutely. Absolutely. That's important. The band that I'm in. First of all, I'm not the youngest or oldest person in it, and second of all, I'm not even the best drummer in it. That's okay. You think so? That's okay. You'll be fine. All right. I'm very appreciative of that. I'm so glad that you've offered for us to open up for you on the show. We just started to write music. I'm tellows. I'm telling you though, man, what I love about this album too is like, you know, there's the Gary Clark Jr. thing, like that, distorted a hard drive and blues. This album is every generation, every decade of Americana music is in it, man?

Was that intentional? I mean, you crooned on this, the falsetto, like there's glam rock, like, it's, you're, you're banging it. Yeah, well, we did this this this this this this this this this this this this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record this record. this record. this record. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the thi. the the the the the the thi. the the the th. the the the the the the th., like there's glam rock, like it's you're you're banging it. Yeah, well we did this this this record mostly was written during the pandemic so I was by myself in a very smoky room doing whatever I wanted. Oh so the room is on fire? Sure, okay. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah, so you were just letting yourself go to every place musically or artistically that you want to go? Well, I decided during that time, well, there was no one saying Gary Clark Jr., the guitar

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all that kind of stuff. What was it like when Stevie Wonder, so Stevie Wonder is on this record? Yes, he is. Which is bananas. What was it when, now did you, did you reach out to Stevie Wonder and say, hey man, I've been a fan since I was a kid, any chance you might want to jump in or, uh, no, he actually called me. Yeah. Stevie Wonder face time me. Yeah.

Wait, Stevie Wonder did what? Stevie Wonder face time me. He face-timed you. Yeah, it was pretty cool. It's... I'm just going to avoid that. Yeah. For, what was the impetus?

Did he just say, like, hey, man, I've heard yourself, I love it? Like, what was the impetus? Did he just say, like, hey, man, I've heard yourself. I love it. Like, what was the impetus? Well, yeah, well, he had called me to do a song on his record. It was, Where's Our Love Song on a Record? He released in 2020. And then soon after that, everything was kind of going, and then I was frustrated. There was no outlet. I wasn't seeing. I to see. I to see. I to see. to see. to see. the to see. to see. the the to see. the to see. the th. the. the. the. the. the. the the. the the thoom. the the thoom. the the the thoom. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoom. thoom. thoom. thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom., where., where., where. thoooooooooooom. thoo going, what the hell is going on? In the world. In the world, it's like, what are we going to do? You know, I was frustrated, I was a little angry, I was concerned, but always with a sense

of hope. So he facts me, he always says my name really weird. It's funny. He goes, Gary. I don't know where that comes from, but so that's my name. I don't know where that comes from, but so that's my name now. Yeah. But so he called me and said, I heard what you were saying, I see you, let's make a song about it.

He said, as a matter of fact, I have an idea. There's a song called What About the Children? He's like, I'm going to send you a voice memo. I'm like, what am I going to say no. Like, of course. So he sends me a demo and I get to working on the record with my band in the studio. We go back and forth and I said, well, will you sing on it now? And not only does he sing on it, he plays beautiful harmonica. He plays Clav Annette, he hadn't played Clive in I think 30-something years, really.

He had a something the future. It's amazing. He's 80 something years old and is he really? And I thought that I was working hard in the studio and if you ever see, if you ever think you're doing too much, watch Stevie Wonder work. Really? Yeah, it's incredible. And it's still just joyful. I mean the one thing about Stevie Wonder is when he plays, boy do you, you feel the joy, you see the joy, it just emanates off of him. Absolutely. He's tapped into something that I don't think that many people are able to tap into. Right. What a joy to be able to work with that. And then he got George Clinton. We had George Clinton come on this supposed to have been 10 or 11 years ago.

And I just remember that day being like, is George Clinton was always like, he's like, I think he's in a van coming up the turnpike. Like, it was one of those like a dude named Shaky was driving him and like nobody really knew what was happening. Dude name Shaky though is always the most solid you can. That's probably the truth. The song habits. What's that? It's a song about struggles. Yeah. It's something that I've always kind of been shy about

expressing. You know, it's in this world, it's like the flex and everything's the true and everything's raw-raw and you know, post the trophies and the great times and all. Golf tournament, if you win a golf tournament, put that right out there. Congratulations. Oh, it's amazing. How, you. you. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. tho. tho. tho. thi. thi. tho. tho thoooooomoomo-in, tho-a. tho-a. tho tho tho tho tho thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. theeeeea. thea. theea. thea. thea. thea. thoooooooooooooooooooo. the. the out there. Congratulations. Amazing. Amazing. Yeah, yeah. How do you win that? Yeah, yeah. So don't worry about anything else is going on. I want this thing twice, right?

Yeah, so it was, you know, I've had my struggles over the years. I got into business as a young, as a young person, right. And older folks, they taught me how to drink they taught me how to smoke and you know I've had my battles ever since and you know I've had some losses in my life and just being real honest about it so I've got habits that I just can't break when I think it's it's it's a beautiful song it's it's real and it's and it's and it also a certain courage in just saying like hey man and this song is nine minutes and it's worth every minute it's worth every second thank you thank you well we actually chopped off a two minute

intro so I felt it was lacking something yeah yeah no I felt that in the beginning no it's fantastic it's always such a pleasure to see likewise thanks man You're such a good man. You're such a good man. Get back, you're all. It's available now. We'll be right back again. Finding great candidates to hire can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. You might get a lot of resumes, but not enough candidates with the right skills or experience.

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way that they obsess me, the election, economics, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second? I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. My guest tonight is a Grammy Award-winning artist

who sold over 30 million records. His songs inspired the new Broadway musical, The Heart of Rock and Roll. Please welcome Huey Lewis. Wonderful. I know that helps with the hearing. How do I sound? Yeah, that helps my hearing. Wonderful. Thanks to Starkey Hearing Institute.

the Starkey hearing. Wonderful. Thanks to Starkey Hearing Institute? Yep. Thank you very much. You know what they did? Exactly. They brought together Huey Lewis and the fake news, finally together at once. It is an honor to have you here in New York. Thank you very much. I hate to tell you, my news is kind of fake too. What?

Don't break my heart, Huey? You're here. You got a big Broadway musical opening tom, tom, tom, tom, to, to, to, to, to, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, big Broadway musical opening tomorrow. The preview start tomorrow. And I'm curious, you 30 million records sold, 12 top 10 hits. How do you start to narrow down what makes it into the heart of rock and roll? Which songs make it into them? Well, it's a, it came about because a producer called Tyler Mitchell, who's my neighbor's friend, was a big fan of ours.

And I was over at my neighbor's house for my birthday. And he was there, and my neighbor's a big musical theater buff, and said, you know, since Desista his son-in-law, Tyler, you should do a musical. We started talking about Mamma Mia Mia and how much we love Mamma Mia and he says you should do a musical with Huey's music and so he said what do you think I said sure give it a try and he went off with his pal John Abrams and came back with a very nice idea. Yeah you're saying that's all it take if I ran into like a decade ago and said your music is great it's known worldwide people love it, you should do more of it publicly, like I could be working with you right now?

Yeah, well, shit! Actually, you know, it took nine years, so it, and what they did, what Tyler and John did was they printed out all of our lyrics, right, and put him up on the wall, and then just lived with them, and I guess there was some jogging involved and listening to lyrics. And this story emerged that this Ritherout, you know, pretty compelling. I was going to say now in creating a musical you have to create a narrative, but these songs are written singularly. Do you, how does that look to take a step back?

Do you feel like there was a sense of narrative to those songs to begin with, or is it sort of a reinvention of what was there? Yeah, it's a reimagining the tunes, really. And, you know, they worked in a certain way anyway, but we had to tweak them a little bit in order to push the story forward. But by the same token toke t't want to lose the integrity of the song, so that's the little balancing act, you know. It's so interesting, now the musicals set in the 80s, correct? It's just set in the 80s, and we had a lot of fun with that. I'm sure. It's so interesting because I will admit the first cassette I ever bought, a small world by Huey Lewis in the News. Wow. Yes.

And I used to dance around the house to sports with my family. You've been very- That's a little too much information. Sorry, OK, yeah. My child was conceived. Do you want more? Oh? Do you want more?

Please? The hard rock and roll is still the mood. It works, Huey, it works. Well, let me say it. Dump, thump, thump, thump, thump, it really sets the mood. What I will say is, as a fan, it's fun to go back and look at some of the videos from the 80s, because you look at the music videos in the 80s, and you were sort of on the forefront of a new art form.

The music videos on m video is is is is is is is is thio video video video video video video video form. The music video is on MTV and I when I'm reapproaching watching some of them what's so interesting is I feel like your music videos unlike many of the ones at the time had a real comedic sensibility that you're not only presenting the songs you found a way to inject humor into it and so you're sort of at this new art form you're you're pushing this forward this art and this music beyond but you're pushing this forward, this art and this music beyond, but you're also finding your way sort of as a comedic character and a comedian. Did you feel yourself doing that at the time?

I think I should get some kind of an award for God's takes. Do you, God, what do you like? Do you like Fiji Water? Shit, get Huey Lewis an award for God's sakes! Now, I mean, honestly, MTV, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the videos, the video,, MTV, the videos were unnecessary evil. You know, we started off as an audio band and you write this song which tells this story and now, oh my gosh, you got to make a video. So it, and so what we decided we were going to do them ourselves. We had a very Hollywood producer, the record company got him to do our very first video.

This is Do You Believe in Love? We're all in bed and we're pointing at the girl. There's sex of us in bed pointing at the girl singing. And he did, we shot this video all day and then, and I remember we went to see the rough cut. And oh my gosh, there was, the record company was there and the video company and all of it.. And we we, and we, and we, and we, and we, and we, and we, and we, and we, we, we, we, we, we, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were all th. We were all all all all all all all all wea, we were all th. We were all th. We were all all all wea, we were all all wea, we were all all all wea, we were all all all all all wea, we were, we were all all all all all all all, we were, we were wea, we were wea, we were wea, we were wea, we were wea, we were we. We were wea, we were all all all all all, we were th. We were all all all all, we were all all all, we were all, we were all th. We were all th. We were all th. We were all in, we were all in, we were all in, we were all in th. We were all in th. We were all th. We were all all th. We were all all th. We were all, we were all, there was the record company was there and the video company and all of it. There are probably 20 people and he announced that this was going to see the run through. It hadn't been colorized yet. It's going to be amazing when it's colorized.

But here we go. And he plays this video and turns the lights off. And my heart sank. I thought it was the worst thing I'd ever seen. Just horrible. And when it ended, everybody stood up and gave us a standing ovation. So I remember thinking to myself, clearly, clearly there's no really, nobody knows anything about this. We're writing our own songs and we're producing our own music. We should be doing our own videos. And that's what we did. And we, you know, through the song in the in the dumper as it were were were were were were were were were were were were were were were were were were were were. We were. We were. We were. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. to. to. to. to. to. the, we. to. the, we. to. to. to. to. to. to. the, to. the, to. the, the, the, the, we. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. to. the. to. to. to. to. the. the. the. the, know, threw the song in the dumper, as it were, don't retell the story, just goof around and have fun and be funny. I think, indeed. You said that a little better than I did, actually. I want to give you credit, I would give you award. I feel like you perfected the comical take over the fancy sunglasses.

Right, right. It was a big one for me. It was a big one, right? Did you practice that in the mirror? Varnay, Varnay, Varnay? Varnay, varnay sunglasses, by the way, at the time. Are you trying to get a sponsorship here? Always, always moving a shark. Starkey, Varnay. OK, Fiji Water. We get it, Huey. It's not Huey Newist, Blue is in the Plugs, all right?

There was a wonderful documentary that came out recently that looked at the behind the scenes of We Are the World. Yep. And you talk about your experiences in that amazing, wild night of pop music. I think what was so fascinating about watching that documentary is, when I was, I was wondering on a night like that, are people aware of the cameras there? There's no cell phones? People don't have assistance in that room. I was shocked by how sober everybody was, except for Al Jaro.

Al Jaro. But it's surprising. I don't know if you could do something like that day. Were people as sober as... Well, I mean, you know, there was check your ego with the door with it. Well, clearly nobody's going to pull an ego trip on this group, right? And so I think we all were a little nervous, except Stevie winder No, no, not at all. And I don't th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi th thi thi thi thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. thi. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. It's thi. It's toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. We were people. We're thi. And I don't think Stevie's ever nervous, to be honest. And so was there again, something like that had never happened before, I think with the presence

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Yeah. Waylon Jennings, I believe, walked out. Yeah. And actually what happened, and I don't think it's in the documentary, but, yeah, Waylon walked out, but and it clearly wasn't going to happen and as we were kind of getting involved there and it was late It was like three four in the morning at this point and Ray Charles is in the front row and he goes Ring the bell, Quincy, ring the bell It's time to move on. Like, let's go, yeah. Somebody brought a fact up. They were like, you're 1984 Sports was number one album. It was on the charge. I? th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. the th. the the their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's like. It's. It's. It's. It's like. It's like. It's like. It's like. It's like. It's like. It's like. It's. It's up. They were like, you're, 1984, Sports was number one album. There were only, it was on the charge for quite some time. In fact, that year, there were only four other albums that were the number one album that year. That was, thanks for pointing that out.

Yeah, it was, I want to humble you here a little bit, okay? See if you can turn this into a way to get some sponsorship. Thriller was a number one album, Foot Loose, Bored in the USA, and Purple Rain. That's a good year for music. It was a good year. If you had to fuck marry or kill. Foot loose, born in the USA, purple rain, or Thriller. What do you do? If you have to do wet now?

Yeah, okay. What do I have to do? Born in the USA, Purple Rain, or Thriller. What do you do? If you have to do wet now? What do I have to do? Think back to the hard rock and roll and what happened back in my bedroom back in the day. You have to, you have to fuck one of these albums.

So make love to the album. So make love to the album. One of those records. The hypothetical, the metaphor, the metaphor, the metaphor, the metaphor, The hypothetical, the metaphorical idea of the album. Okay. Make love to the album. You have to marry the album, like engage in matrimony with the album. Okay. A real commitment with the album.

Or kill. Be done with one of the albums. Okay. Out of those four albums, you have to make love to one. You have to commit yourself, marry to to to commit yourself, to to commit yourself, marry, to the other, and you have to execute one. Wow. Wow, that's tough. I'm going to execute footloose because Kenny Loggins won't mind he's a good guy.

Okay. I'm going to- Everybody cut. That's an easy one. I'm going to make love to born in the USA. And I'm going to fall in love with Thriller. Yeah, you've that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that. That that that that that that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy thy the the the the the the the the the to to thr- thro the thro thro thro thr-a thr-than thriller even really if I don't mind me saying that You like a little bit of that disco dance vibe to it all. Oh yeah rock with you Ooh I could listen to that over and over I think dangerous is an underrated album there he go look at this we could do this forever I could pitch you on a musical like hey why don't you use your own songs it's a great hit. We can make some money off this, Huey. Before I let you go, it's so interesting.

You are a beloved musician. It's so funny, I was talking to you a little bit backstage. When I told the folks, or when we were told that Huey Lewis was coming on the daily show, people of all ages who work on this show, they love you, and they're so excited that you hear. You bring such goodwill to people. And I heard the story that, back to the future, Robert Zemeck has told you that Marty McFly, his favorite, the fictional character Marty McFly, his favorite band would be Huey Lewis in the News. Right.

Then in American Psycho, Patrick Bateman. Favorite band to kill Jared Leto too is Huey Lewis in the news. And so in a fictional universe, you appeal both to a person who is a time traveler and a person who is a psycho killer. You are that universal. And you know what, that's, that is fresh material for a musical. Watch the Daily Show Weeknights at 1110 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Fairmount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show. It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting, you'll be saying to yourself, TGID, thank God it's Thursday, we're going

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