The drummer who helped establish the country-rock rhythm section sound of the Charlie Daniels Band is not the same Don Murray who played drums in the Turtles, no more than Charlie Daniels would have been "Happy Together" on a desert island with Mikhail Gorbachev. There is also a guitarist named Don Murray picking country, a recording engineer, an actor, a gospel singer, and a New Orleans jazzman from the '20s. It was close to half a century later when the drummer Don Murray became part of the Charlie Daniels Band and a rebellious strain of country-rock that meant, for a time, that drummers could leave their brushes at home. Murray took over from drummer Gary Allen in 1975, the switch coinciding with guitarist Barry Barnes dropping out, the somewhat more aggressive Tom Crain being hoisted. Those who savor Daniels reported the combo becoming louder upon these changes, the bassist looking eagerly at both his volume settings and his fretboard as the movements within traditional bluegrass settings became more limber. Nightrider was the first album involving the transformation. This drummer's stretch with Daniels through the late '70s were certainly some of the best years for Southern rock of all sorts. Interest in the genre began anew among an even more diverse audience in the '90s, resulting in a new pile of reissue credits for Murray. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide