Pirates and Poets

Pirates and Poets
Pirates and Poets
Studio album by Bertie Higgins
Released	1983
Recorded	October 1982 – January 1983
Studio	Pyramid Eye, Lookout Mountain, Georgia; Southern Tracks, Atlanta; Creative Workshop, Berry Hill, Tennessee;
Genre	Soft rock
Label	Sony
Bertie Higgins chronology

Pirates and Poets is an album by the American singer-songwriter Bertie Higgins, released in 1983.^[1]^[2] The first single was ""When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)".^[3]

Roy Orbison sang on "Leah". The CD version of the album includes Higgins's hit single Key Largo as a bonus track.

Critical reception

The Philadelphia Inquirer called Higgins "just about the most weepy, sentimental, insufferable singer-songwriter in existence," and ironically deemed the album, "in its own way, a demented masterpiece."^[4]

Track listing

"As Time Goes By" (0:45)
"Pirates and Poets" (3:11)
"When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)" (3:36)
"Leah" (3:28)
"Under a Blue Moon" (3:55)
"Tokyo Joe" (3:25)
"Beneath the Island Light" (4:04)
"Only Yesterday" (3:50)
"Marianna" (4:09)
"Pleasure Pier" (3:28)
"Never Looking Back" (7:18)
"As Time Goes By (Reprise)" (1:15)

References

^ Miller, Zell. They Heard Georgia Singing. Mercer University Press. p. 140.
^ Defendorf, Richard (9 June 1985). "Bertie Higgins". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 11.
^ "Higgins Is Coming". Omaha World-Herald. October 27, 1983.
^ Tucker, Ken (10 Apr 1983). "Bertie Higgins Pirates and Poets". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. R9.

[1] Miller, Zell. They Heard Georgia Singing. Mercer University Press. p. 140.

[2] Defendorf, Richard (9 June 1985). "Bertie Higgins". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 11.

[3] "Higgins Is Coming". Omaha World-Herald. October 27, 1983.

[4] Tucker, Ken (10 Apr 1983). "Bertie Higgins Pirates and Poets". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. R9.

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