Big Rig Records

Kieran Carroll and The Charcoal Sea released their one and only album A Straight Line To Wander Through in November 1997.

Forming in Melbourne some two years earlier, they recorded the album at the North Carlton Baptist  Church. Recorded by Matt Hills and mixed by Andrew Coates (Black Cab), the album is a delicate and wistful mix of guitars, pianos and strings with Carroll’s poetic narratives moving from local comedy to Greek tragedy to 1850?s Irish migration.

1. Mud Island
2. Fat City Revisited
3. Saint Christopher River
4. Midnight
5. Never Mess With Anybody’s Favourite Shirt
6. Talking to Richmond Station
7. Saturday Morning
8. Beer for my Fellow Man
9. The Last Ship
10. No Turning Back
11. Blacker Than a Midnight Park

Listen to A Straight Line to Wander Through