Pirates and Poets explained

Pirates and Poets
Type:	studio
Artist:	Bertie Higgins
Cover:	Pirates and Poets.jpg
Released:	1983
Recorded:	October 1982 – January 1983; Pyramid Eye Recording Studio, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Southern Tracks Recording Studio, Atlanta, The Creative Workshop, Nashville
Genre:	Soft rock
Label:	Sony
Prev Title:	Just Another Day in Paradise
Prev Year:	1982

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

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Miller . Zell . They Heard Georgia Singing . Mercer University Press . 140.
2. News: Defendorf . Richard . Bertie Higgins . Orlando Sentinel . 9 June 1985 . Calendar . 11.
3. News: Higgins Is Coming . Omaha World-Herald . October 27, 1983.
4. News: Tucker . Ken . Bertie Higgins Pirates and Poets . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 10 Apr 1983 . R9.