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Afterwords (Collective Soul album)

album by Collective Soul

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ3606306 ↗
Source-derived summary

Afterwords is the seventh studio album by Atlanta-based rock band Collective Soul, released on August 28, 2007. The album was released digitally in the iTunes Store and physical copies of the album were available only at Target Stores following an exclusive deal the band made with the chain. The album was later re-released at all retail locations on December 9, 2008 with three new tracks written by Ed Roland.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Afterwords (Collective Soul album)” is album by Collective Soul. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Afterwords, Collective and Soul, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. For this dossier, Afterwords, Collective and Soul is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Collective Soul” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3606306. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Afterwords (Collective Soul album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.