{"title":"Mike Post","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf his name is not instantly recognizable, Mike Post’s music is. His unforgettable themes for The Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues, The A-Team, Magnum P.I., NYPD Blue, L.A. Law and many other TV classics – including the Law \u0026amp; Order family of dramas (notably, in the landmark, two-note “dun-dun” effect he created) – are part of the soundtrack of modern American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteeped in music from childhood, Post was a go-to session musician as a teenager in the Los Angeles area, quickly becoming part of a legendary collective of studio musical virtuosos known as The Wrecking Crew. Post played for virtually everyone active in the LA recording scene during this time. Most notably he worked on all of Sonny and Cher’s early hits, starting with “I Got You Babe.” While working for producer Jimmy Bowen, he formed The First Edition, featuring then unknown bassist\/vocalist, Kenny Rogers. A breakout success – and at 23, winning the first of his five Grammy® Awards – with his arrangement of the 1968 instrumental smash hit “Classical Gas” raised Post’s profile as a composer, arranger and producer, before television changed the course of his career in the early 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis theme songs from The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law all became chart-topping records and landed Post four of his five Grammy® Awards. In 1996 he won the Emmy® for outstanding achievement in Main Title composition for the critically acclaimed Murder One.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mike-post-message-from-the-mountains-echoes-of-the-delta-cd","title":"| Message from the Mountains \u0026 Echoes of the Delta (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eHe transformed and redefined the sound of music in TV and films over a half-century, and now the Emmy®- and Grammy®-winning American composer and musical man-for-all-seasons Mike Post has realized his own creative challenge in Message from the Mountains \u0026amp; Echoes of the Delta, a unique new recording from Sony Masterworks.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe album features a pair of original works by Post that combine the pure sounds of bluegrass (Message from the Mountains) and the blues (Echoes of the Delta) – joined by “dream teams” of soloists who are longtime friends and colleagues – with the expressive power and range of a full orchestra. Post’s musical signatures for The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Magnum P.I., NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues and other TV classics – not to mention the Law \u0026amp; Order family of dramas (including the landmark, two-note “stinger” effect he created) – are in the DNA of contemporary television culture.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn nine multifaceted movements, Message from the Mountains uses the sounds of bluegrass to celebrate the mingling of tradition and diverse cultural experience in American music. Collaborators in realizing the work are the soloists – Herb Pedersen (5-string banjo); Gabe Witcher (fiddle); Mike Witcher (dobro); Patrick Sauber (acoustic guitar\/mandolin); and Amy Keys (orator).\u003cbr\u003e\r\n Echoes from the Delta reflects and explores the exuberant joy and the well of anguish that forged the blues in 14 short, expressive movements. Joining Post and the orchestra as soloists are Sonny Landreth (slide guitar); Eric Gales (electric guitar); Abe Laboriel Sr. (bass); Abe Laboriel Jr. (drums); Robert Turner (organ\/piano); Jon O’Hara (keyboards); and Amy Keys (vocalist).\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe way Mike Post firmly describes himself – “I am an American musician” – is as grateful and respectful as it is limitless in its compass and its ambition. Message from the Mountains \u0026amp; Echoes of the Delta emerged as his own celebration of the American experience that made him who he is.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u2028Tracklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e1        Message from the Mountains: I. Journeys - The Message\u003cbr\u003e\r\n2        Message from the Mountains: II. Onward\u003cbr\u003e\r\n3        Message from the Mountains: III. Sunrise Special\u003cbr\u003e\r\n4        Message from the Mountains: IV. Redemption Valley\u003cbr\u003e\r\n5        Message from the Mountains: V. Campfire Breakdown - Night Sky\u003cbr\u003e\r\n6        Message from the Mountains: VI. Fort Smith Waltz\u003cbr\u003e\r\n7        Message from the Mountains: VII. Strings Afire\u003cbr\u003e\r\n8        Message from the Mountains: VIII. Spirit of the Owl\u003cbr\u003e\r\n9        Message from the Mountains: IX. Destined to Dream\u003cbr\u003e\r\n10        Echoes of the Delta: I. John the Revelator\u003cbr\u003e\r\n11        Echoes of the Delta: II. River Walkin'\u003cbr\u003e\r\n12        Echoes of the Delta: III. Just Before Dawn\u003cbr\u003e\r\n13        Echoes of the Delta: IV. Highway 41\u003cbr\u003e\r\n14        Echoes of the Delta: V. Little Zion\u003cbr\u003e\r\n15        Echoes of the Delta: VI. The Gate to Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\r\n16        Echoes of the Delta: VII. Crossed Road\u003cbr\u003e\r\n17        Echoes of the Delta: VIII. Riley Smiles\u003cbr\u003e\r\n18        Echoes of the Delta: IX. Riffs 'Round the Sun\u003cbr\u003e\r\n19        Echoes of the Delta: X. Sunday With Maudes\u003cbr\u003e\r\n20        Echoes of the Delta: XI. Boogie Offspring\u003cbr\u003e\r\n21        Echoes of the Delta: XII. Backside Middle\u003cbr\u003e\r\n22        Echoes of the Delta: XIII. Sunny in the Second Line\u003cbr\u003e\r\n23        Echoes of the Delta: XIV. Light the Dark Sky\u003cbr\u003e\r\n24        Echoes of the Delta: XV. The Call\u003cbr\u003e\r\n25        Echoes of the Delta: XVI. 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