Back in my college days, a missionary kid-journalist friend of mine (who later spent some time as a presidential speechwriter) turned me on to that fabulous “Sittin’ In” album by Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina. The songs were OK, he said, but his advice was to check out the horn charts and keyboards. We both said: Who in the world is Michael Omartian?
Being a music fanatic, I started following Omartian’s work — especially his incredible piano tracks on the classic Steely Dan album called “Katy Lied.” Eventually, I discovered — via his “White Horse” album for ABC Records, that Omartian was actually an evangelical Christian who was embedded, so to speak, in the elite levels of the LA studio scene.
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