Lakeshore Records is set to release 
Lawmen: Bass Reeves—Original Series Soundtrack digitally on November 10 with music by Chanda Dancy (Oscar short-listed score Devotion). The poignant orchestral score creates a thrilling and emotional backdrop to the highly anticipated series, the latest in producer Taylor Sheridan’s growing stable of series on Paramount+.
LAWMEN: BASS REEVES is an anthology series starring executive producer and Emmy Award nominee David Oyelowo, Lauren E. Banks, Demi Singleton, Forrest Goodluck, Emmy Award winner Barry Pepper, Grantham Coleman, Honorary Oscar recipient Donald Sutherland and Emmy Award nominee Dennis Quaid. The highly anticipated original drama premiered exclusively on Paramount+ with two episodes on Sunday, Nov. 5 in the U.S. and all Paramount+ international markets. The remaining six episodes will roll out weekly on Sundays exclusively on the service.
Revealing the untold story of the most legendary lawman in the Old West, LAWMEN: BASS REEVES follows the journey of Reeves (Oyelowo) and his rise from enslavement to law enforcement as one of the first Black U.S. Deputy Marshals west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting over 3,000 outlaws during the course of his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family. LAWMEN: BASS REEVES is an all-new, standalone anthology series and future iterations will follow other iconic lawmen and outlaws who have impacted history.
Notes Dancy:
“The story of Bass Reeves is an epic tale of a great American hero of justice that is finally getting told far and wide. He was a bright and shining light in a dark and difficult time, and his legacy gives us hope and inspiration to be a light ourselves. In creating the score for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, I was inspired by this very sense of hope and light. With grand, sweeping melodies, syncopated rhythms and tactile orchestral colors, the score tells the story of Bass’s journey from the pain of enslavement to becoming what Taylor Sheridan himself described to me during our first meeting: ‘A Light In No Man’s Land.’”
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Track List
- A Light In No Man’s Land
- The Battle At Pea Ridge
- No Celebrations On Return
- Jenny And Bass
- Bass Was Cheated – On The Run
- The Crow’s Scraps
- Meeting Curtis
- Sarah Offers Home – Learning The Ways
- Trading Post – 1865
- Hell Comes To The Trading Post
- Curtis The Brave
- The Skies Over A Free Man’s Head
- Burning Crops
- Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Let It Shine
- Prayer For The Dead
- Found Charlie
- Wolves
- Hush Now
- Found Billy
- Montgomery Wants The Money
- Empty Boots
- Delivering Billy
- Tell Us A Story
- Billy The Killer
ABOUT CHANDA DANCY
Texas-raised, Chanda Dancy, started composing orchestral works at the age of 12. She has been described as a “phenomenal composer” (Ted Chung, Zacuto: Featured Filmmakers) and “quickly gaining recognition as a foremost black American contemporary composer.” (Anthony Parnther, Conductor, San Bernardino Symphony). Her works are described as “emotionally penetrating” (John Malveaux, Africlassical.com) and “rich” (George Heymont, Huffington Post ).
An alumnus of the USC Film Scoring Program, and the Sundance Composers Lab, Chanda Dancy is both an accomplished film and television composer with over 19 years of experience and an emerging classical concert composer. Arts Boston named her one of “10 Contemporary Black Composers You Should Know”. She is known for her work on the Sundance award winning documentary “Aftershock” (Disney/Onyx Collective), the hit Netflix TV Original “The Defeated” starring Taylor Kitsch (“Friday Night Lights”), the Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”, directed by Kasi Lemmons, and the Korean War era epic Devotion starring Jonathan Majors (Da 5 Bloods, Loki) and Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick), which was selected for the 2022 OSCARS Shortlist.
Chanda Dancy IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1929530/
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