Steve Porcaro – The Very Day 2025, MP3+FLAC

Few musicians have had as wide-ranging an impact on popular music as STEVE PORCARO. As a founding member of TOTO, his synthesizer work helped define an era – on hits like “Africa,” “Rosanna,” and “Hold the Line.” But his influence doesn’t stop there.

Steve co-wrote “Human Nature,” one of the most enduring tracks on Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, still the best-selling album of all time, and he became a go-to sound architect for legends from Quincy Jones to Don Henley. His textured, atmospheric programming on songs like “Boys of Summer” and “Dirty Laundry” set the sonic standard for a generation.
Beyond the pop charts, Steve has left his mark on film and television, scoring projects from Justified to Dune.
Next Friday, Steve continues to push forward. After his first solo album, Someday, Somehow in 2016, he will release the follow-up, titled “The Very Day“, featuring lead vocals from great AOR artists such as Jason Scheff, Michael McDonald and Jude Cole, and impressive musicians like guitar master Mike Landau, Toto’s David Paich, and more.

Porcaro wrote and recorded the songs on “The Very Day” with a carefully chosen cast of friends and collaborators, including Michael McDonald, Jude Cole, Gardner Cole and Jason Scheff. With a producer’s ear and a composer’s sensibility, Porcaro approached each track like casting a film — inviting voices and musicians who best served the story of the song. Though he’s never considered himself a lead vocalist, he sings several songs on the album, including “Miss Jane Sinclair”.

Porcaro created an incredible album with ‘The Very Day’, and it is even more incredible to think that a lot of the material here started off in the late ’70s / early ’80 as ideas, experiments that he has kept demo cassettes for decades.
However, 2025, he made it work, and he put a lot of work into crafting these very good songs. His ultimate goal for the album however is “I just wanted to share it with people, so they could hear it.”
Highly Recommended

01 – Marilyn
02 – Miss Jane Sinclair (feat. Mike Landau & Jason Scheff)
03 – Change (feat. Michael McDonald)
04 – The El
05 – Does It Really Matter?
06 – Listen To My Heart (feat. Gardner Cole)
07 – Water From The Sky (feat. Marc Bonilla)
08 – Prelude
09 – 2x Lover (feat. Jude Cole)
10 – Tonight
11 – Saints And Angels (feat. Jason Scheff)

Steve Porcaro – keyboards and lead vocals
Michael McDonald – lead vocals
Jude Cole – lead vocals
Jason Scheff – lead vocals
Gardner Cole – lead vocals
Marc Bonilla – guitar
Mike Landau – guitar
Shannon Forrest – drums
Marcus Miller – bass
David Paich – Hammond B3
Chuck Findley, Larry Williams – horns
and more…

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