All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

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