It’s the rare album cover that makes you laugh out loud, but that was our immediate reaction to Mike Duke’s “new” album …took a while. On the front is a young bearded man singing his heart out. On the back is a photo of the current-day Duke, all 71 years of him.
This engaging project from the Little Village Foundation features demos and a handful of more recent tracks from Duke, who wrote a number of hits for Huey Lewis and the News, but never had an album release of his own.
Here’s Mike Duke, before and after: