Enlisted Records

Blogs

• Better Buy the Dozen

  August 28, 2024

  Playing the new album, Loving, by Army Recuerdos, straight through with the backstory of each song by Brian Michael Smith.

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• Welcome to Enlisted Records!

  January 16, 2024

  The feeling you get right before making the decision to publish something is special. There is a mixture of feelings ranging from excitement, optimistic, vulnerable, and doubt. All of those feelings are what I experience whether it is performing or recording a new song, releasing a new book, or making a website public for the…

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• 28 July National Buffalo Soldier Day

  August 1, 2025

  What a busy week it has been. I am just now getting around to posting a blog I wrote on Monday, July 28, 2025. / Another chapter closes in the story of Mingo Sanders. I love telling his story because it is about dreams, adversity, and adventure. He was born a slave, grew up during…

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• A Juneteenth Story

  June 19, 2025

  A Juneteenth Story Last Tuesday, the 17th, I received an email marked Unclassified in my personal inbox. Email with classified markings usually only comes from government sources and indeed this one was from a USARMY Pentagon HQDA account. The rest of the address wouldn’t fit in screen. I assumed it would be from the soldier…

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• A Good Run is Better Than A Bad Stand

  January 31, 2025

  ☺ “We had a good run,” is a cliche way to say that you have accepted the end of a successful period of time in life. I pondered this statement instead of responding immediately, because it was rhetorical. If I could have completed the thought in the moment I would like to have replied, “better…

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