Bertie Higgins - Just Another Day in Paradise
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Bertie Higgins
Just Another Day in Paradise
Genre: Soft Rock
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Just Another Day in Paradise
Key Largo
Where the parroted failed, Higgins succeeds. Not every rock album needs to cut glass or set your hair on fire. Nor does it necessarily have to be ground breaking or genre defining. With the end of the Brill Building, up burbled singer-songwriters. In the end, songs like these are the kind that should have come out of that music factory. But, because they are written for one emotional confessor they sound more personal. Even when he’s singing about one of the greatest movies of all time, he personalizes the crap out of them and turns them into soft-schmaltz classics.
Does much of it sound like it could have been included on the Boogie Nights soundtrack? Hell yes. And that makes it extra good.
He does go for the “Hotel California” trope with the 7 minute closer “The Tropics”. He doesn’t get there but it’s good. And he knows where it belongs.
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