Musicians

Dan Sultan

Origin
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genre/styles
Country | Soul | Roots
About Dan

Dan Sultan is a multi-award winning alternative rock singer and guitarist of Arrente and Gurindji heritage. His mother is a member of the Stolen Generations.

I used my fists a bit growing up but mostly my defence was my mouth and my brain and my music.

— Dan Sultan
Dan Sultan portrait in front of an Aboriginal flag.
Dan Sultan Photo: Rachel Raymen

Watch Dan Sultan's sexy video to Under Your Skin featuring members of the Bangarra Dance Theatre:

Discography

Album formats explained

Album formats

  • 10": 10 inch vinyl records were played at 45 or 33 1/3 rounds per minute (rpm). The former could hold 9, the latter 12 minutes of music per side.
  • 7": 7 inch records (often referred to as 45s) were played at 45 rpm or 33 1/3 rpm, with about 4:30 or 6 minutes of music per side.
  • LP: Long play, is a vinyl record played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm with a 12 or 10-inch diameter.
  • EP: Extended play, are vinyl records that allowed two or even three songs on each side.

Homemade Biscuits

Released
2006
Tracks
  1. Your Love is Like a Song
  2. Enemy
  3. Forever
  4. Caroline
  5. The Door Is Still Open (to my heart)
  6. Miss Linda
  7. Whip On Hide
  8. Fool
  9. Lonesome Tears
  10. Money
  11. Voices
  12. Roslyn
Notes

This is Dan Sultan's debut album.


Get Out While You Can

Released
6 November 2009
Tracks
  1. Goddess Love
  2. Sorrowbound
  3. Dingo
  4. Never Let You Down
  5. Old Fitzroy
  6. Get Out While You Can
  7. Walk Through My Dream
  8. Crazy
  9. Letter
  10. Fear Of Flying
  11. I Like It
  12. Come Home Tonight
  13. Cadillac And A Mustang

Under Your Skin (Single)

Released
15 November 2013
Tracks
  1. Under Your Skin

Blackbird

Released
4 April 2014
Tracks
  1. Make Me Slip
  2. Can't Blame Me
  3. Under Your Skin
  4. High Street Riot
  5. Ain't Thinking About You
  6. Kimberley Calling
  7. The Same Man
  8. Nobody Knows
  9. Waiting On the End of the Phone
  10. It Belongs To Us
  11. No More Explanations
  12. Loving's Just For Fools
  13. Gullible Few
Notes

Blackbird won the 2014 ARIA award for best rock album.


Dirty Ground (EP)

Released
7 November 2014
Tracks
  1. Dirty Ground
  2. Mountaintop
  3. Man On TV
  4. On the Leffy
  5. The Same Man (Acoustic)
  6. Gullible Few

Killer

Released
28 July 2017
Tracks
  1. Drover
  2. Hold It Together
  3. Kingdom
  4. Killer
  5. Should've Known
  6. Cul-de-sac
  7. Magnetic
  8. Over In Time
  9. Reaction
  10. Fire Under Foot
  11. Easier Man

Killer Under a Blood Moon

Released
18 May 2018
Tracks
  1. Drover (feat. Dave Le’aupepe)
  2. My Kingdom (feat. A.B. Original)
  3. Reaction (feat. Meg Mac)
  4. Killer (feat. Camp Cope)
  5. Pitchfork (Bonus Track)
  6. Coming Back (Bonus Track)

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Korff, J 2020, Dan Sultan, <https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/music/dan-sultan>, retrieved 8 December 2024

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