I know I keep saying that the end of this season is imminent. And it is, but it seems like every time I think it’s about dead it springs back to life for a little while longer. Reviving it this week is Jeremiah Fraites. Jeremiah is going to be best known as being one of the founding members of the hit alternative folk band The Lumineers, but lately he’s expanded his horizons a bit. Specifically, Jeremiah has scored two films this fall: the Stephen King-based The Long Walk and the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. We spend most of our time talking about both scores, particularly The Long Walk (since Deliver Me from Nowhere isn’t out yet), and of course that becomes a jumping off point for the conversation. We also cover things like how film has expanded music (including visualizing music as you write), getting his wife involved in the scoring process, the differences between writing original score and original songs for films (The Lumineers wrote some songs for The Hunger Games), and plenty more.
Candidly I wasn’t really familiar with Jeremiah or The Lumineers before hearing The Long Walk and I’d wondered if he would be dipping into the well of his twenty-year indie folk career for the sound. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him going with a very different sound, and from his description of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere I assume that’s going to be yet another distinct palette. It’s always fun chatting with folks who have a long music career but are only just getting started in scoring, often with different perspectives and insights compared to those who have been doing it their whole careers.
Jeremiah’s score for The Long Walk, and much of his other music, is available on all major platforms while The Long Walk is currently in theaters while Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere hits theaters on October 24th. You can find out more about Jeremiah on his website.
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More About The Long Walk
“From the highly anticipated adaptation of master storyteller Stephen King’s first-written novel, and Francis Lawrence, the visionary director of The Hunger Games franchise films (Catching Fire, Mockingjay – Pts. 1 & 2, and The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), comes The Long Walk, an intense, chilling, and emotional thriller that challenges audiences to confront a haunting question: how far could you go?”
