‘Law & Order’ Composer Mike Post Creates New Bluegrass and Blues Album (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJon Burlingame Mike Post has written the music for more classic TV series than anyone else: “The Rockford Files,” “Hill Street Blues,” “The Greatest American Hero,” “Magnum, P.I.,” “The A-Team,” “L.A.
Law,” “NYPD Blue,” “Law & Order” and many others over the past 50 years. But for his new album, “Message from the Mountains & Echoes of the Delta,” he has left his day job behind, creating two original suites for bluegrass and blues bands with orchestra.
And although Post doesn’t play on it (he conducted), the project takes him back to his 1960s roots as a studio guitarist. The album is slated for release on April 5.
Post has been toiling in TV for so long (scoring an estimated 7,200 hours of TV since the early 1970s) that it’s easy to forget that he once played guitar on Sonny & Cher records, won his first Grammy at 24 for arranging “Classical Gas” and became TV’s youngest-ever music director when singer Andy Williams signed him for his NBC variety show.
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