The Coral – Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show – Vinyl LP

Bridging ‘Coral Island’ and ‘Sea Of Mirrors’, a second album titled ‘Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show’, released September 2023. With the full tracklisting limited to physical formats only, the album brings James and Ian Skelly’s grandad a.k.a The Great Muriarty back into the fold for the narrated post-script to one of The Coral’s most successful albums to date. Framed inside a midnight radio show beaming out from a Michelin blimp that hovers somewhere past the piers of Coral Island, ‘Holy Joe…’ is a love letter to the tradition of the death disc and murder ballad, from Stack-o-Lee to Skeleton Key, and everything in between. Stay up late. Tune in. If you do, who knows? You might end up loving it more than the original.

1. Holy Joe (Sounds From the Other Side)
2. The Sinner
3. Hotel
4. Holy Joe (Hitchhiker At the Highway’s Edge)
5. Leave This Town
6. The Road is Calling
7. Holy Joe (Rita is Having a Bad One)
8. Never Be In Love Like That Again
9. Drifter’s Prayer
10. Holy Joe (Bobby and Faith)
11. Long Drive To the City
12. Down By the Riverside
13. Holy Joe (The Graveyard Shift)
14. Baby Face Nelson
15. Holy Joe (A Wise Man Once Said)
16. The Coral Island Killer
17. Holy Joe (Let the Credits Roll)