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Why Legendary TV Composer Mike Post Decided It Was Time to Make an Album of His Own
Mike Post, a legendary TV composer, decided it was time to make his own album with 'Message From the Mountains & Echoes of the Delta.'
Post was part of the Wrecking Crew as a teenager, won the first of his five Grammy Awards at age 24 and has a résumé of themes and scores (literally scores of ’em) that includes The Andy Williams Show, The Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues, the Law & Order franchise and The Greatest American Hero(several of which won Grammys and resulted in singles that hit various Billboard charts). As he proceeded, he expanded his vision to include blues into the mix as well, though that portion of the piece’s second half also touches on prog rock and jazz fusion. The resulting 25-track work includes players such as banjoist Herb Pedersen, fiddler Gabe Witcher, dobroist Mike Witcher and Patrick Sauber on guitar and mandolin from the bluegrass side; and on the blues side, it includes guitarists Sonny Landreth and Eric Gales, bassist Abe Laboriel Sr. and drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and keyboardists Robert Turner and Jon O’Hara.
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