Pirates and Poets

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]

Pirates and Poets
Studio album by Bertie Higgins
Released	1983
Recorded	October 1982 – January 1983
Studio	Pyramid Eye's Recording Studio (Lookout Mountain, Georgia) Southern Tracks (Atlanta, Georgia) Creative Workshop (Berry Hill, Tennessee)
Genre	Soft rock
Length	42:25
Label	Sony
Producer	Sonny Limbo Scott MacLellan
Bertie Higgins chronology
Just Another Day in Paradise (1982) Pirates and Poets (1983)

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" (Herman Hupfeld) - 0:45
2. "Pirates and Poets" (Bertie Higgins, Sonny Limbo) - 3:11
3. "When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)" (Higgins, Limbo, Jeff Pinkham) - 3:36
4. "Leah" (Roy Orbison) - 3:28
5. "Under a Blue Moon" (Gary Baker, Quentin Powers) - 3:55
6. "Tokyo Joe" (Higgins, Limbo) - 3:25
7. "Beneath the Island Light" (Higgins, Limbo) - 4:04
8. "Only Yesterday" (Higgins) - 3:50
9. "Marianna" (Higgins) - 4:09
10. "Pleasure Pier" (Higgins) - 3:28
11. "Never Looking Back" (Higgins, Deniece Dupey) - 7:18
12. "As Time Goes By (Reprise)" (Hupfeld) - 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 (1)
• The Atlanta Strings – strings
• Wayne Mosley – string arrangements and conductor
• Karen Norwood – copyist
• Roy Orbison – vocals (4)

The "Doo-Bobs" (backing 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 (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Bertie Higgins – cover concept
• Mike McCarty – cover concept, cover artwork, design
• Joe Kahl – cover photography
• Tom Corcoran – additional photography
• Joel Cherry – direction