Pirates and Poets
Pirates and Poets is an album by the American singer-songwriter Bertie Higgins, released in 1983. The first single was ""When You Fall in Love ".
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."Track listing
- "As Time Goes By" - 0:45
- "Pirates and Poets" - 3:11
- "When You Fall in Love " - 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 " - 1:15
Personnel
Musicians- Bertie Higgins – vocals, acoustic guitars
- John Healy – acoustic piano, organ, synthesizers
- Steve Nathan – acoustic piano, organ, synthesizers
- Ken Bell – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
- Shelton Irwin – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
- Kenny Mims – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
- Jeffrey Dale Pinkham – bouzouki, mandolin
- Gary Baker – bass guitar
- Owen Hale – drums
- Mickey Buckins – percussion
- Edward Higgins – percussion
- Doug Johnson – percussion
- Mark O'Connor – fiddle
- Ed Leamon – saxophones
- Scott MacLellan – flute
- Linda Penny Baker – oboe
- Albert Coleman's Atlanta Pops – orchestra
- The Atlanta Strings – strings
- Wayne Mosley – string arrangements and conductor
- Karen Norwood – copyist
- Roy Orbison – vocals
- Gary Baker – BGV arrangements and conductor
- Cathy Dover, Bertie Higgins, Beverly Higgins, Edward Higgins, Gloria Higgins-Burke, Mike Jones, Phyllis & Manny Loiacono, Scott MacLellan, David Powell, Mike Sullivan and Cheryl Wilson – singers
Production
- Sonny Limbo – producer, additional engineer
- Scott MacLellan – producer, additional engineer
- Doug Johnson – engineer
- Brent Maher – additional engineer
- Jim Stablie – additional engineer
- Glenn Meadows – digital consultant at Masterfonics
- Bertie Higgins – cover concept
- Mike McCarty – cover concept, cover artwork, design
- Joe Kahl – cover photography
- Tom Corcoran – additional photography
- Joel Cherry – direction