Dan Sultan – Homemade Buscuits

Homemade Biscuits – Dan Sultan

By Chris Peken

Remember where you first heard Dan Sultan sing’ You will. For me it was a glimpse at last year’s Sydney Festival followed by a religious experience in a hot, sweaty, pumping Famous Spiegeltent a few weeks ago. With a voice that is equal parts Archie Roach and Otis Redding, and hips that have been inherited from Elvis Presley, Sultan and band blew away all and sundry. Homemade Biscuits was recorded and released some two years ago, but due to a strong stance of Independence, is only now making its way to the wider audience. Along with guitarist and co-writer Scott Wilson, Dan Sultan comfortably traverses pop-reggae with Whip on Hide, raw-hide country – Lonesome Tears – and a heart-wrenching finish to the album with the simple guitar-and-voice tale of his mother’s stolen-generation story Roslyn – a song the equal of anything Archie or Paul Kelly have ever written. Throw in the albums opener Your Love is Like a Song, the best soul-stompin’, brass-belting number this side of Motown/Stax and there can be no excuse for not liking Dan Sultan. Rarely does an important, outstanding talent introduce himself as impressively as Dan Sultan has. Available in limited good music stores, see www.dansultan.com for details.

****1/2