Hollywood Records has released The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Original Soundtrack) by composer Kathryn Bostic. The album is available today, August 23, on digital platforms, coinciding with the film’s release on Hulu.
In addition, Hollywood Records has released the newest episode of their music docuseries, The Big Score. This episode sees composer Kathryn Bostic bring her soulful artistry to life with her score for Searchlight’s The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. Drawing from her jazz and classical background, Bostic emphasizes serving the film’s story and characters, particularly focusing on Barbara Jean’s journey of abandonment and growth. Her orchestral score blends raw blues influences to reflect the characters’ emotional depth and evolution, using vocal textures to convey trauma. Bostic’s music evolves as friendships deepen, the score crescendos into a jubilant, blues-filled climax, celebrating the powerful bond of sisterhood that defines the characters’ lives.
Bostic reflects on the music, “The score reflects the growing friendship of the three main characters; Clarice, Odette and Barbara-Jean as they explore challenges and triumphs within their own lives. I chose a simple melody that grows in variations and mood to reflect their personal catharsis that inevitably tests their friendship as well. Instrumentation is primarily orchestral and piano in addition to some bluesy guitar, vocal and bass motifs. I wanted the score to support this brilliant cast and elevate their dynamic performance in very subtle ways.”
ABOUT THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT
The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat follows lifelong best friends Odette (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), Barbara Jean (Sanaa Lathan), and Clarice (Uzo Aduba) known as “The Supremes”, who share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through the joys and sorrows of life, marriage and children, happiness and blues, love and loss, new shades of heartbreak and illness threaten to stir up the past when the trio sees their bond put to the test as they face their most challenging times yet.
Directed by Tina Mabry, screenplay by Cee Marcellus and Tina Mabry, based on the 2013 New York Times best-selling novel by Edward Kelsey Moore.
ABOUT KATHRYN BOSTIC
Composer and singer/songwriter Kathryn Bostic is known for her original work on film, TV, theater and symphonic music. Emmy nominated for her score in the award winning films “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir” and “Toni Morrison – The Pieces I am,” she is a recipient of many fellowships and awards including the prestigious Sundance Time Warner Fellowship, Sundance Fellowship for Feature Film Scoring, Sundance/Skywalker Documentary Film Scoring, African American Film Critics Award for Best Music in Film, BMI Conducting Fellowship and Society of Composers and Lyricists “Outstanding Music for Independent Feature Film.” Kathryn was the Vice President of the Alliance for Women Film Composers from 2016-2018. A member of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2016 she became the first female African American score composer in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
TRACKLIST
- Sycamore Tree
- Clarice
- Barbara Jean
- To The Supremes
- State Of Grace (Film Version)
- Diagnosis
- Escape
- Missing Show
- Long Enough
- I’ll Leave
- I Don’t Work Without You
- Making Amends
- Ending Walk
