Released through Toucan Cove as a digital single rather than on a full-length album, “A River” is currently sharing the chart with massive artists including Alex Warren, Bruno Mars, Olivia Dean, and Taylor Swift, the latter of which Higgins addressed specifically with Billboard.
“To compete with that, that’s amazing,” Higgins said. “God bless her.”
Written with pop-rock/Christian singer Eddie Hedges, “A River” has a fascinating backstory. Oddly enough, the two weren’t inspired by another love song, but rather a single line spoken by Anthony Quinn in the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia: “The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!”
“As a songwriter, I’m tuned in to every street sign, things that people mumble about that I can barely understand, so I’ve got my brain out there for all this material,” Higgins said. “So I wrote ‘A River’—‘Her love flows like a river into my heart’—which I thought was a good idea. It’s amazing where you get your inspiration from.”
Originally released in late 1981, “Key Largo” climbed to No. 1 the following year on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. 8 on the all-genre Hot 100, becoming the artist's signature soft rock and yacht rock ballad. It, too, took inspiration from the big screen, borrowing its title and romantic narrative from the 1948 film of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
“My publisher in Atlanta, Bill Lowery … great ears … said, ‘Lad, if this damn thing ever gets legs, it’ll live forever.’ And he’s been so right—that song won’t go away,” Higgins said. “The song had an amazing run, and it still is running.”
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