TrackSounds has an interview with James Michael Dooley, the musical genius for Pushing Daisies. Read the interview, then visit our Music page for downloadable mp3 files of the Pushing Daisies music.

CC: Let me ask you about your new project PUSHING DAISIES. I have seen a couple of episodes of it and I have to say that it is a very unique show, which I’m sure you’ve heard a thousand times already. At first, I couldn’t get my head around it but by the second episode, I started to see what show was going after.The show itself is constructed so differently. You’ve got narration going through much of it, yet the episodes seem to be almost wall to wall music. There are very few scenes where there isn’t any music going on, which itself is a rarity these days. The volume of work must be a challenge for you but what other challenges did this specific TV show present to you??

JAMES MICHAEL DOOLEY: It’s a very good question. Besides the fact that it’s just a massive amount of music. Each episode is about 40 minutes and I have about six days to write that. So every moment that I’m awake I’m writing! And if I’m not writing it’s because I’m eating. That’s kind of all I do right now. And what I find the most challenging about scoring this is that it’s all about subtext.

(read the rest of the interview here…)