Search - Steve Lukather :: All's Well That Ends Well

'The worst of my life,' the rock guitar legend amplifies. 'My personal life
is in shambles. I'm getting a divorce from the mother of my youngest child.
My mother died. I'm seeing a shrink twice a week and I'm trying to figure
out just exactly what my place is supposed to be in this world - which, I
might add, is a mess in its own right.'
And yet, his new album with the tongue-in-cheek title All's Well That Ends
Well boasts some of the most beautiful and powerful music he's made in his
illustrious career - a career that began at age 19 when he co-founded the
group Toto and entered the exclusive inner circle of first-call Los Angeles
session musicians.
Since then Lukather has consistently remained on the honor roll of the
world's top guitarists - a peer and pal to the likes of Jeff Beck, Eddie Van
Halen, Jimmy Page, Larry Carlton and other fabled players. He's also co-led
Toto with fellow founder David Paich through every twist of the band's
platinum lined history while playing on albums by Michael Jackson, Warren
Zevon, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Richard Marx and other
rock and pop royalty. And he's done all that while writing hits for the
Tubes and George Benson, plus maintaining and parallel career of his own
that began with 1999's Lukather.
Six solo albums later, he's arrived at what he calls 'his best work,' with
the artful, funny and sometimes harrowing All's Well That Ends Well.
Although Lukather is the disc's lead vocalist - a role he's played on
previous solo recordings and Toto singles including 'Only You' and 'Lonely
Beat of My Heart' - his backup singers include Def Leppard's Phil Collen and
the Tunes' Fee Waybill.