SONG & INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CATALOG

 

I. SONGS FOR ALBUMS IN RELEASE

11 for the album “LIFE AFTER BEFORE” 

(New for projected 2026 release)

MUSIC & LYRICS BY LOUIS ROSEN

  1. Ghost of Desire
  2. Everyone Loves the Wrong Someone
  3. Rhythm of the Road
  4. 45 Minutes to Somewhere
  5. Life After Before
  6. Didi White
  7. Do You Think of Me?
  8. The Arrow and the Bow
  9. Candice and Me
  10. Straight, True Love
  • Not included:
  1. It Felt Like Love

13 for the album AMERICAN SUNSET (2025)

MUSIC & LYRICS BY LOUIS ROSEN

  1. American Sunset
  2. The Wheel Goes 'Round
  3. Tango for Charlie (Instrumental)
  4. American Clown Car March
  5. Candice and Me
  6. Gulf of Mexico
  7. Executive Orders (Instrumental with Spoken Text)
  8. Life on Earth
  9. Run It Back
  10. Elegy (Instrumental)
  11. Last Things First
  12. And Still I Sing
  • Not included:
  1. Hollow Man

13 for the album LOVE AND ASHES (2023)

MUSIC & LYRICS BY LOUIS ROSEN

  1. Prisoners of Hope and Desire
  2. Love and Ashes
  3. Last Chance, Marie
  4. He’d Rather Not Think About Her
  5. The Day After Christmas Day
  6. Dinnertime at Jimmy’s
  7. Notre Dame is Burning
  8. Tender Eyes
  9. Not for the Faint of Heart
  10. Just a Summer Rain
  11. A Hole at the Edge of Time
  • Not included:
  1. The Fool Who Loves You
  2. Leave the Rest for Me

17 for the album “I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING (2020)

An Album in Three Acts”

MUSIC & LYRICS BY LOUIS ROSEN (except as indicated)

  1. Before the Window Closes
  2. Kathleen O’Toole (Lyric by LR & Arthur Perlman)
  3. I Don’t Know Anything
  4. Guru, Please Tell Me
  5. Limitless World
  6. My Third Act
  7. Acquainted With The Night (Song Without Words)
  8. The History of Friendship
  9. Unknown Name, Unknown Number
  10. Then Came You
  11. Slow Goes the Night
  12. Later Than Never (Song Without Words)
  13. I Sing This Song for You
  14. What Are the Odds? (Lyric by LR & Arthur Perlman)
  15. In the Hour of His Leaving
  16. Morning Soul
  • Not included:
  1. Lost in Love

16 for the album “PHENOMENAL WOMAN: THE MAYA ANGELOU SONGS and SONGS WITHOUT WORDS (2005/2017)

Part III of "THE BLACK LOOM TRILOGY"

MUSIC BY LOUIS ROSEN, LYRIC BY MAYA ANGELOU

Album Release: 2018

  1. Prelude: A Day Next Week (Song Without Words)
  2. Come, Be My Baby
  3. But They Went Home
  4. Preacher, Don’t
  5. Interlude I: Dream Dust (Song Without Words)
  6. Think About Myself
  7. Some Blues I’ve Had
  8. Turned to Blue
  9. Interlude II: Trust Silence (Song Without Words)
  10. I Hate to Lose Something
  11. Poor Girl, Just Like Me
  12. Out Here Alone
  13. Interlude III: Together (Song Without Words)
  14. For the Caged Bird Sings
  15. Phenomenal Woman
  • Not included:
  1. In a Time

13 for the album “DUST TO DUST BLUES” (2017)

Music & lyrics by LOUIS ROSEN (except as indicated)

  1. Dust to Dust Blues
  2. I Found You
  3. Faith in Doubt
  4. I’ve Seen This Movie
  5. Peace With You (Music & Lyric by Thom Bishop & Louis Rosen)
  6. Everything’s For Sale
  7. Every Soul (Music & Lyric by Thom Bishop & Louis Rosen)
  8. Garden Days
  9. Where Are the Traces? (Lyric by Thom Bishop)
  10. There For You
  11. In Her Quiet Way
  12. A Soft Place to Fall
  13. The Left Side, Not the Right
  14. Song for Charlotte

16 for the album “DREAM SUITE" (2002)

"Songs in Jazz and Blues” 

Part I of “THE BLACK LOOM TRILOGY”

Music by Louis Rosen, poems by langston hughes

Album Release: 2016

  1. Harlem Night Song (Solo & Duet Versions)
  2. Lullaby: For a Black Mother
  3. Life is Fine
  4. Song for Billie Holiday
  5. Exits
  6. Love Song for Lucinda (Solo & Duet Versions)
  7. Hurt
  8. Juke Box Love Song
  9. Dimout in Harlem (Duet)
  10. Soledad
  11. Blues at Dawn
  12. Monotony
  13. Dream Suite (Solo & Duet Versions)
  14. Gold and Brown: College Formal – Renaissance Casino (Solo & Duet Versions)
  • Not Included:
  1. Nonette
  2. Beale Street – Dream Dust

14 for the album “TIME WAS”

Music by Louis Rosen, Texts by Various Poets

  1. John Evereldown (Words by Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  2. Time Was (Words by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Adapted by Louis Rosen)
  3. The Song (Words by John Erskine, Adapted by Louis Rosen)
  4. The Man Hunt (Words by Madison Cawein, Adapted by Louis Rosen)
  5. The Host of the Air (Words by William Butler Yeats)
  6. Silence ["Night Song of Amalfi"] (Words by Sara Teasdale)
  7. A Cabin in the Wood (Words by Langston Hughes)
  8. Richard Cory (Words by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Adapted by Louis Rosen)
  9. The Watchers (Words by William Stanley Braithwaite, Adapted by Louis Rosen)
  10. The Sea-Side Cave (Words by Alice Cary)
  11. The Valley of the Shadow (Words by E. A. Robinson, Adapted by Louis Rosen)                                    
  12. So We'll Go No More A-Roving (Words by Lord Byron)
  • Not included:
  1. Lulu [“Seeking Religion”] (Words by Sterling Brown, Adapted by Louis Rosen)
  2. Acquainted By the Night (Words by Robert Frost)

14 for the album “THE ACHE OF POSSIBILITY”

MUSIC & LYRICS BY LOUIS ROSEN (except as indicated)

  1. How You Gonna Save 'Em? (Poem by Nikki Giovanni)
  2. I Want to Live to Love You
  3. The Ache of Possibility
  4. The Middle-Class (Used-to-Be) Blues
  5. Winter Daze
  6. Love in Short Supply - A Statement on Conservation (Poem by Nikki Giovanni)
  7. On That Day
  8. Choices (Poem by Nikki Giovanni)
  9. I Need You
  10. Don't Hold  Me Back (Poem by Nikki Giovanni)
  11. A Lover’s Melody
  12. Love of Song
  • Not included
  1. When I Lie Awake
  2. Maya Is Illusion