We’re not sure if founding Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora ever will rejoin his old band, but the 55-year-old rocker has revealed that he’s now focused on a new solo album.

He shared some details about the project while walking the red carpet at a recent Grammy event with his rumored girlfriend, rock-guitar whiz Orianthi, and producer Michael Bearden.

Sambora said of the album, “It’s coming,” while pointing out that Orianthi and Bearden are his main collaborators on the recording.

Calling Bearden a genius, Richie then listed some of the stars with whom the producer and arranger previously worked, including Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Lady Gaga.

Sambora noted, “We started writing, and we just started putting the record down, and I think everybody’s gonna be very pleased.”

With regard to the sound of the album, Richie said it will be quite diverse.

“We cover a lot of genre[s],” he explained.  “You know, all of us love very many different genres of stuff, and we can take it everywhere from, like, acoustic intimacy to the heaviest heavy.”

Bearden then put his own two cents in, noting, “Somehow…it will have a consistent through line.  It won’t be genre-specific, but you’ll feel it…So it’s all about the song and the emotion.”

Sambora, Orianthi and Bearden all have been posting recent photos from the studio on their various social media sites.

Incidentally, Orianthi and Bearden both were working on Michael Jackson’s planned 2009 This Is It concerts when the King of Pop died in the midst of rehearsals for the London shows.

Richie’s last solo album, Aftermath of the Lowdown, was released in 20102.

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