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Blood on the Slacks

album by Golden Smog

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ4927877 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blood on the Slacks is the fourth full-length album by the American band Golden Smog. It was released by Lost Highway Records on April 24, 2007, less than a year after their previous album, Another Fine Day. The album's name is a play on Bob Dylan's 1975 album Blood On The Tracks. It was the first release from the group to not feature the Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy as part of the lineup since 1992's On Golden Smog.

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“Blood on the Slacks” enters the record as album by Golden Smog. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Blood, Slacks and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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, 1975, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Blood, Slacks and album.
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“Blood on the Slacks” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Blood, Slacks and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4927877. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007, 1975 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blood on the Slacks” 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.