Our Fresh Single Friday release this week is a sonic tour around the nearly imaginary and highly improbable town of Coral Bay. It’s a blues rocker with a pop hook that won’t stop, but more than that, it’s a classic place-inspired song, complete with call-outs and name-checks. Heck it could be your audio guide to the best beaches on St. John. It’s the second song to be released by St. John Electric, an island band that realizes its main power source doesn’t come through the transmission lines.
Written and sung by Jeremy Newman, the tune gallops along on a shuffle by Joshua Scornavacchi and a walking bassline by Jill Pries Clapp. Allen Clapp produces, sings backup and adds color on a vintage Fender Rhodes 88. Guest-star Myles Boisen adds tasty pedal steel licks that transport you to the Caribbean whether you’re here or not, reaffirming the chorus: “You are here in Coral Bay.”
Catch them tomorrow with Tyler Perrino on drums at Our Place in Coral Bay playing at the 2nd Annual fundraiser for St. John Wildlife Rehabilitation.