Welcome to SealSongs (had to call it something).
This blog contains lyrics of some of my songs and links to (mostly rough!) recordings of them on Soundcloud or elsewhere.
Also a selection of tracks from the Steamshuttle LPs, 1977-79. Steamshuttle was a Sydney band playing what was then usually known as ‘folk rock’. Its members were Andy Saunders, Yuri Halay, Michael Buliak and Graham Seal.
A bit about me: I'm a musician (guitar, dulcimer, Anglo concertina, harmonica) and songwriter, mainly in the folk ballad tradition, and have had a long involvement with the Australian folk revival as a performer and producer.
Over the years I worked with Declan Affley, Warren Fahey, Andy Saunders, Yuri Halay, Michael Buliak, Dave De Hugard, Jacko Kevans, Phyl Lobl, Keith McKenry, Danny Spooner, Rob Willis, Jason and Chloe Roweth, among others.
I produced and played on many lps and CDs, radio programs and appeared at folk festivals around the country, including many National Folk Festivals, St Albans, Fairbridge, Toodyay, Albany, Illawarra, Cygnet, etc.
My songs have been recorded and performed by many, including Phyl Lobl, Shane Howard, Steamshuttle, The Symbolics, Danny Spooner, Graham Dodsworth, The Fagan’s, Chloe and Jason Roweth and Bob Fox. A couple have won or been placed in competitions, including the National Songwriting Award way back in 1971! (‘The First Fair Wind’).
Graham’s recordings (lp, cd, radio) include:
· On the Steps of the Dole-Office Door (Larrikin, 1977)
· Steamshuttle: Australian Tradition in Transition (Larrikin, 1977)
· Game as Ned Kelly (Larrikin 1980)
· Old Bush Songs (Festival 1983 – producer)
· A Broken Song, (5-part ABC radio documentary series/cassette set, 1983)
· Dear Husband (ABC radio drama 1986)
· The Eureka Report (ABC/OUA radio feature, 1992)
· Barbed Wire Ballads: Songs of Australia (Unvarnished Productions, 2003)
Unless otherwise noted, words and music are all copyright to Graham Seal.
CONTACT: g.seal@curtin.edu.au