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Giving Something Back

album by Jimmie's Chicken Shack

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ5565864 ↗
Source-derived summary

Giving Something Back is a live album recorded by Jimmie's Chicken Shack during the summer of 1995. The recordings are from two shows, one at Graffiti's (21 August 1995) and one at Hammerjacks (17 July 1995). The material on the album comes from 2 for 1 Special and early versions of songs from Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Giving Something Back” as album by Jimmie's Chicken Shack. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. The account is most persuasive where Giving, Something and Back can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Jimmie's Chicken Shack. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Jun 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5565864. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Giving Something Back”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Giving Something Back primary sources, Giving Something Back archive and Giving research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Giving Something Back”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Giving Something Back” 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.