Marc Benno came up playing guitar in various bands in Austin, TX, in the late '60s, then moved to Los Angeles, where he hooked up with
Leon Russell and formed the duo
Asylum Choir, which released one album in 1968 and recorded a second before splitting up. (The second
Asylum Choir album was released in the wake of
Leon Russell's commercial success in 1971 and hit #70 in the charts.) He made four albums of mainstream pop/rock in the 1970s, the most successful of which was the third, Ambush, in 1972. ~ William Ruhlmann