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Kerryn Tolhurst

Kerryn William Tolhurst is an Australian country rock musician, songwriter and producer. He was based in the United States from late 1970s to the late 1990s, although he periodically returned to Australia. He was a founder of the Australian group, the Dingoes and co-wrote their top 40 hit single, "Way Out West". It was covered by fellow Australians, James Blundell and James Reyne in 1991, which reached No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart. He also formed a short-lived group, Rattling Sabres, and wrote their single, "All Fired Up" (1987). The track was reworked by Pat Benatar and released as her single in June 1988, which peaked at No. 2 in Australia and reached the top 20 in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.

Biography
Kerryn William Tolhurst was born on 7 May 1948 in Williamstown, Victoria to Aileen ( Sostella) and Eric Tolhurst. His early groups included Blues Merchants, and Vacant Lot. In 1964, on guitar and mandolin, he formed the Adderley Smith Blues Band, in Melbourne, with his friend Mark Dindas on piano. They performed at local dances and clubs with a variable line-up. Smith briefly joined before going on to Carson in 1971. Sundown issued a lone single, "This Country of Mine" (June 1972), but Tolhurst had already left before it appeared. Alongside him were John A Bird on keyboards, Chris Blanchflower on harmonica, Tony Bolton on drums (ex-The Affair, Freshwater), John Du Bois on bass guitar (ex-Circle of Love, New Dream), and founding mainstay, Greg Quill on vocals and guitar. It became the group's highest charting single, peaking at No. 12 on the Go-Set National Top 40, and remained on the chart for 13 weeks. Tolhurst left Country Radio in February 1973 and briefly joined Mississippi, which later became Little River Band. He then teamed up with Smith again in April of that year to form another country rock band, the Dingoes. The other founding members were John Lee on drums (ex-Sayla, Blackfeather), Chris Stockley on guitar (ex-Cam-Pact, Axiom), and John Strangio on bass guitar (ex-St James Infirmary, Middle Earth). In March 1992 it was covered by fellow Australians, James Blundell and James Reyne, which reached No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Tolhurst appears on all of the Dingoes' albums, including their three studio albums, The Dingoes (1974), Five Times the Sun (1977), and Orphans of the Storm (1979). Tolhurst periodically returned to Australia where he worked as a session musician and record producer. He returned to Australia to co-produce the Black Sorrow's next studio album, Beat Club (November 1998). Quill was also visiting Australia and was based in Toronto as an entertainment journalist for Toronto Star. They decided to form a duo, Quill & Tolhurst, to co-write and perform new material, after they each returned to their homes in North America. It resulted in an album, So Rudely Interrupted (May 2003), which Australian music journalist Ed Nimmervoll felt showed, "Kerryn sensitively weaves his multi-instrumental magic around [Quill's] vocals, one of the most tasteful and talented musicians Australia has ever produced." In 2005, he produced and played on the John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew album Lawson. In 2012, he released a solo album called Out of the Shadows again featuring Robert Price on vocals. == References ==
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