I Found The Sun Again Steve Lukather

• 1Along For The Ride04:56
• 2Serpent Soul04:55
• 3The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys10:35
• 4Journey Through05:54
• 5Welcome To The Club05:57
• 6I Found The Sun Again06:18
• 7Run To Me (feat. Ringo Starr, Joseph Williams)03:17
• 8Bridge Of Sighs08:24
• Total Runtime50:16

Info for I Found The Sun Again

Steve Lukather aka "Luke" and Joseph Williams will release individual solo albums on February 26, 2021 via The Players Club / Mascot Label Group. Both artists have made significant contributions to the other’s album.

Over the course of five decades Steve Lukather has placed an indelible stamp on pop culture. Alongside his tenure as the only member of Toto to never take a hiatus from the band, he has performed on thousands of albums as a session musician. He continues to be Toto’s band leader, a member of Ringo’s All-Starr Band, and a solo artist performing with multiple ensembles.

Steve Lukather's new solo album "I Found The Sun Again" was co-produced by Ken Freeman, who also both engineered and mixed. The players feature many dignitaries that have been in Luke's life for decades. Amongst those are drummer Greg Bissonette, keyboardist Jeff Babko, and bassists Jorgen Carlsson and John Pierce. Life-long friend and Toto band-mate David Paich performs piano and organ across the album, while Joseph Williams sang on multiple tracks alongside writing string and horn arrangements and tracking keys on "Run To Me." Both Paich and Williams co-wrote that specific composition, while friend and band leader of the All-Starrs, Ringo Starr makes a special appearance on the recording and in the video.

I Found The Sun Again features five new original compositions, and three covers personally selected by Luke. Those are Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," Joe Walsh's "Welcome To The Club," and Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs." Lukather offers in the liner notes, "ALL these tracks were cut LIVE - no clix - no fix - No rehearsal - one run thru - and record and the whole record was take 2."

Steve Lukather, guitar
Gregg Bissonette, drums
David Paich, piano, keyboards
Joseph Williams, vocals

Steve Lukather
Versatile musician, guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer and arranger Steve Lukather was born in Los Angeles on October 21 in 1957. Before his father bought him a guitar (a simple Kay acoustic) and a copy of Meet the Beatles at the age of seven, Luke started to play drums and keyboards. "I love keyboards, I write all my songs on keyboards except for the real obvious 'burn' tunes. I find it much easier, you have all these great synth sounds and you play a C chord and it's sounds like God, and you start thinking melodies as opposed to chops." (Lukather, 1986).

Lukather was Toto’s lead guitarist, but he also sang and composed a lot. When the band started out, Jeff Porcaro was the band leader, and he wrote most of the songs. Later Lukather’s role started looking more and more like Porcaro’s. When Porcaro died, Lukather stepped up and made sure the band kept going.

After firing their vocalist Jean-Michel Byron in 1990, Toto had no lead singer from 1990to 1997. Lukather did most of the vocal parts for the band in that time. He provided lead vocals in every track on 1992’s Kingdom of Desire and 1995’s Tambu except for two instrumental tracks. The Tabu single I will Remember reached the 64th place on the UK charts. Despite the success of the song, reviewers noted that he struggled with the vocals. Toto had to bring their former lead singers Joseph Williams and Bobby Kimball for the collaboration Toto XX in 1988, that’s when Lukather could stop doing the lead vocals.

Lukather’s song writing contributions have grown along the way, and it’s noticeable that only one of the earlier Toto songs was written by him, namely I Won’t Hold You Back. He also admits that lyric writing isn’t his strong point, so he collaborated with other band members to get his musical ideas into hits.

In June 2008, Lukather decided to leave Toto. This also lead to the break up of the band. Steve was already 50 years old and he really felt like his Toto time was over. ‘ "I just cant do it anymore and at 50 years old I wanted to start over and give it one last try on my own." ‘ and:’ "Honestly I have just had enough. This is NOT a break. It is over. I really can't go out and play Hold the Line with a straight face anymore." ‘

This album contains no booklet.