"Highlights of the Low Life" by Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant
The 26-track triple LP from rock-poetry collective Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant, featuring the lyrics of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon as well as Chris Harford, Warren Zanes (The Del Fuegos), David Mansfield (Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue), Cait O'Riordan (The Pogues), and Ray Kubian (Dean Ween Group). Includes 22 original songs and 4 spoken-word poems read by Muldoon, as well as a 20-page lyric booklet and cover art from the incomparable Irish painter, Ann Quinn.
Track List
Fresh Start
Now With the Fire in Me Now
Highlights of the Low Life
What Snow is For
Made Man
When First We Heard the Shakers Sing
A Piece of You
Three Deer, Sharon Springs, November 2020
Stupid Cupid
You Say You’re Just Hanging Out
Small Talk
I Was Reared on Rock ‘n’ Roll
Joy in the Service of Rue Tagore
Rhubarb Jam
Music to My Ears
Hope in Hell
Next to Nothing
Service Dog
Buddie and Bilie
Coywolves
Dry Wash South of Town
The Ballad of Ellen Hall
Julius Caesar Was a People Person
Uphill Struggle
The Riders
Rock’n’Roll Royalty