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2024 release. He 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 & Echoes of the Delta, a unique new recording from Sony Masterworks. The 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 & Order family of dramas (including the landmark, two-note "stinger" effect he created) - are in the DNA of contemporary television culture. In 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).