Steve Lukather has introduced that his ninth solo album, Bridges, might be launched on June 16.
The Toto guitarist is previewing the upcoming LP with its first single, “Once I See You Once more,” which finds him collaborating along with his bandmates Joseph Williams and David Paich. The three of them wrote the tune with former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch.
The reference to Lynch goes again to Lukather’s first solo album, 1989’s Lukather. The drummer has labored with each Lukather and Toto over time, together with penning a lot of the fabric discovered on Toto’s 1995 album, Tambu.
You’ll be able to watch the official lyric video for Lukather’s new “Once I See You Once more” beneath.
The upcoming Bridges consists of comparable collaborations and musical threads. “I see it as a bridge between my solo music and Toto music,” Lukather defined in a press launch. “The truth that [singer] Joseph Williams, [keyboardist] David Paich and I wrote many of the report, and the very fact I invited most of the outdated Toto gang to return and play, [plus] co-writers like Randy Goodrum and Stan Lynch brings all this collectively.”
Toto, Lukather added, “won’t ever report one other studio album,” echoing what he’s mentioned previously. “That is as shut as we are going to get. We nonetheless love writing and creating and recording collectively, and we are going to little doubt proceed to work with one another on our respective solo works.”
The band has been touring with Journey as the latter group celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, a run of dates that began collectively in 2022.
Steve Lukather, ‘Bridges’ Monitor Itemizing
1. “Far From Over”
2. “Not My Sort of Individuals”
3. “Somebody”
4. “All Forevers Should Finish”
5. “Once I See You Once more”
6. “Take My Love”
7. “Burning Bridges”
8. “I will By no means Know”
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