Sports

Sports makes Huey Lewis and the News’s mix of bar-band rock, rhythm and blues, and pop hooks unusually clear. “The Heart of Rock & Roll” opens with a pulse and a roll call of musical cities, while “I Want a New Drug” locks onto a repeating riff.

“If This Is It” slows the pace without losing the group’s vocal interplay. The arrangements leave room for Lewis’s harmonica and the band’s familiar, tightly organized backing parts.