Kerryn William Tolhurst (born 1948) is an Australian country rock musician, songwriter and producer.
[3] In 1964, on guitar and mandolin, he formed the Adderley Smith Blues Band, in Melbourne, with his friend Mark Dindas on piano.
[3][4][5] Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, observed that they were, "one of the first authentic blues bands Australia ever produced.
[7] 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.
[5][7] Tolhurst and Quill formed a songwriting partnership and penned the group's second single, "Gypsy Queen" (August 1972).
[7][9] Tolhurst left Country Radio in February 1973 and briefly joined Mississippi, which later became Little River Band.
"All Fired Up" was reworked by Pat Benatar and her drummer, Myron Grombacher, and then released as her single in June 1988, which peaked at No.
He next worked on Paul Kelly's Deeper Water (September 1995) on the tracks, "Difficult Woman" and "Give in to My Love".
[16] 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.
[16] 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.