As the lead singer for
Guadalcanal Diary,
Murray Attaway led the band through four albums from 1984 to 1989. After an acrimonious break-up, he took a few years off to work on his songwriting but returned in 1993 on In Thrall, recorded for DGC. His new group of musicians included guitarist
Robbie Blunt, multi-instrumentalist
Jon Brion, bassist Eric Pressley, drummers
Pat Mastelotto and
Jim Keltner, keyboard players
Nicky Hopkins,
Steve Nieve and Benmont Tench. The album was produced by
Tony Berg. ~ John Bush