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The Righteous Sounds of ‘Gemstones’ and the Importance of a Perfect Score

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A.D. Amorosi Beyond the misdeeds and greed of the beloved televangelist family featured on HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones,” one of the most marked elements of its co-creators’ rude, enlightened and hilarious series is its music.As with every other series creator-writer-actor Danny McBride has co-concocted — including 2009’s “Eastbound & Down” and 2016’s “Vice Principals” — the unique musical tone of “The Righteous Gemstones” comes down to the longtime friendship of college buddies McBride, composer Joseph Stephens and music supervisor Devoe Yates.Where the musical mix of “Gemstones” is concerned, theirs is a genuinely fresh blend of new or rare sacred songs intimately tied to an equally bracing, secular Southern-fried brand of rock, blues, country and soul, to say nothing of its hot and holy original music and nuanced arrangements.

Orchestrator-composer Stephens’ often-souped-up synth-wave vibe also matches the hyperactive tone of Yates’ needle drops, making for a character of its own devising.“The music and the score are such an important part of what we do because our shows tend to jump all over the place, tonewise,” says McBride. “There’s a serious sequence one second, then something thrilling the next, or wildly silly.The score, then, is what the audience needs to know that, ‘Yeah, you’re feeling the right thing here.

You’re allowed to laugh or be scared by this.’ Music lulls the audience into what we want them to be thinking.”“The Righteous Gemstones” is touched by Yates’ bold spiritual needle drops (e.g.

Johnny Cash’s “Amen”) and Stephens’ maximum overdrive megachurch-inspired scores, compositions or arrangements of classics, such as Wayland Holyfield’s “Some Broken Hearts Never Mend,” sung by first-time vocalist.

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