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The 26th Man - A Newsletter by Michael Canter: V1 E2 - Smoking the Ivy

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Good Afternoon, and welcome subscribers to my second newsletter. I hope today finds you all in fine fettle and I come bearing some good news. The newsletter will be officially named The 26th Man and will be a weekly starting today. So instead of getting a post from me every other Saturday, you'll get one once weekly going forward. Huzzah!  As the subscription list grows I'll transition to a more interactive site like Mailchimp, or something similar, but for now this is about as good as it gets. And though sharing newsletters is usually considered a breach of etiquette, I encourage you to share the first couple so that you can help me build my subscriber list. I am hoping to reach 2,000 total, and so far I have just you five :-) Direct potential new subscribers to this link to subscribe . If you are mentioned as a referral, I'll send you $5 for each annual membership that I can verify as a direct referral. More Good News for Subscribers I have to take some time off o...
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I'm Going to Write a Book and Publish a Semi-Monthly Newsletter

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Well hello there! It's been awhile, hasn't it? I have been encouraged by a number of people to write a book about being a Cubs fan, so I've decided to take the plunge. I'm not sure of the title, but it will be about growing up a Cubs fan on Chicago's South Side. This will be the realization of a lifelong dream, and though I know nothing about editing and publishing, and little about the already saturated market for Cubs books, I do know that I offer a unique perspective as compared to other writers. If you would like to see an example of my writing, and the basic theme of my upcoming book, I urge you to take a look at a recent example of my writing for the Cubs Insider website. I believe you will agree that of the hundreds of books written about the Cubs none offer the same viewpoint that I do. Because I am starting this endeavor without a publisher deal, I have to self-finance my effort. In order to do that, I am going to write a semi-monthly newsletter t...
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The Vinyl Project - Super Fly (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Curtis Mayfield (1972)

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A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 20 Release Date:  18-July-1972 Genre:  R&B/Soul/Soundtracks Producer: Curtis Mayfield Label: Curtom Records Time:  37m 05s Review Date:  27-January-2019 Format: LP Side One Little Child Runnin' Wild Pusherman Freddie's Dead Junkie Chase (Instrumental) Side Two Give Me Your Love (Love Song) Eddie You Should Know Better No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) Think (Instrumental) Superfly Review:  I had largely forgotten how much I love Curtis Mayfield until HBO debuted The Deuce in 2017. As a singer, writer and record producer, Mayfield stands as one of the giants of American popular music, and Super Fly provides his most inspired work. Mayfield paints a street-smart landscape set against the gritty underbelly of 1970's inner-city life: sophisticated and enlightening; sensitive, but still biting. Bob Donat of Rolling Stone Magazine , describes this album perfectly: "...the greatest quality of any sou...
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December Album Adds

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A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 19 Barring anything I may receive as Christmas gifts and the purchase of Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys I am waiting on, here is the updated list. Ahhh... records. I just love everything about them. My new favorite downtime thing to do is to go to Acme Records in Bayview, WI, grab an LP, put it on a turntable and listen through a pair of real headphones. The link to Acme Records is in the left margin. Let's meet sometime and shop together! Oh, and before I get started, I am taking donations. This gadget-ma-thing here will be at the top of every blog. Donation Toward Purchases Used Album $5.00 USD New Album $10.00 USD Collectable $20.00 USD These are the albums that I have picked up or have been donated to me since I started this. I'll do an update every month. Incidentally, today is the 13th anniversary of the night my house burned down and I lost all my music.  Sad night. Not just for me, but for music. A lot of w...
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The Vinyl Project: The Best of the Grateful Dead: Skeletons from the Closet (1974)

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A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 18 Release Date:  19-February-1974 Genre:  Jam Bands/Rock/Folk Rock Producer: Stephen Barncard, Betty Cantor, David Hassinger, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Matthews Label: Warner Bros. Time:  44m 53s Review Date:  16-December-2018 Format: LP Side One The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) Truckin' Sugar Magnolia St. Stephen Uncle John's Band Side Two Casey Jones Mexicali Blues Turn on Your Love Light One More Saturday Night Friend of the Devil Review:  The Grateful Dead left Warner Bros. to start their own label with their own production and publishing arm after fulfilling their contract upon the release of Wake of the Flood . Warner Bros. wasn't very happy with that decision and decided that they would capitalize on the band's back catalog by releasing a compilation of songs with no input from the band. As if to say "thanks for nothing," they sanctioned an artist to design the cover using none...
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