As Lewis told Rolling Stone years later, "there isn’t any harmonica. The band accompanied Elvis Costello on his debut album, My Aim is True, minus Lewis and Alex Call, the singers. By this point the spelling of Cregg's stage name had changed to "Huey Louis" it is under this spelling that he is billed on both of Clover's albums for Phonogram, although for songwriting credits he is billed as "H. The two Clover albums produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange for Phonogram were not successful. However, Clover arrived in Britain just as their folk-rock sound, known as pub rock in Britain, was being replaced by punk rock. They had their big break in a club there when their act was caught by Nick Lowe, who convinced Clover to travel to Great Britain with him. In 1976, after playing in the Bay Area with limited success, Clover went to Los Angeles. Lewis played harmonica and sang lead vocals on a few tunes. Other members of the band (at various points) included John McFee and Alex Call. Around this time he took the stage name "Hughie Louis", the spelling of which he would tinker with for some years after. In 1971 Lewis joined the Bay Area band Clover. His aim was to continue playing music, though along the way he also tried other fields of work including landscaping, carpentry, wedding and event planning, as well as delivering and selling natural foods. He signed up with a band called Slippery Elm, and in December 1969 during his junior year, he dropped out of Cornell and moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area. Initially an active student and a member of the fraternity Eta Lambda Nu, Lewis soon lost interest in college. While there he made friends with Lance and Larry Hoppen who later played with Orleans and Eddie Tuleja of King Harvest. Upon his return, Lewis entered the engineering program at Cornell University. He gave his first concerts in Madrid, earning enough money to buy a plane ticket back to the US. In Madrid, Spain, he became an accomplished blues player as he hitchhiked and supported himself by busking with his harmonica. While visiting Aberdeen, Scotland, with no money and nowhere to sleep, he claimed that the locals were very hospitable by offering him somewhere to stay. In later interviews, Lewis would reveal other encounters he had traveling around Europe. He talked about hanging out at the airport for three days until he stowed away on a plane to Europe. In an interview with David Letterman, Lewis talked about hitchhiking across the country back to New York City and how he learned to play the harmonica while waiting for rides. His mother was close friends with the Grateful Dead's manager and extended family. Lewis credits Welch with inspiring him in his early teenage years. His mother had an extramarital affair with Beat Generation poet Lew Welch, who became his step father. Lewis attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He was also an all-state baseball player. He attended and graduated from the Lawrenceville School, a then-all-male prep school in New Jersey, in 1967, and he achieved a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of the SAT. Lewis was raised in Marin County, California, living in Tamalpais Valley and Strawberry, and attending Strawberry Point Elementary School (where he skipped second grade) and Edna Maguire Junior High School in Mill Valley. His grandfather, Hugh Cregg, was district attorney of Essex County, Massachusetts from 1931 to 1959. His father, Hugh Anthony Cregg Jr., was an Irish-American from Boston, and his mother, Maria Magdalena Barcinski, was Polish, from Warsaw.
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