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Live – Spontaneous Combustion

1996 live album by Son Seals

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Live – Spontaneous Combustion was the second live album released by Son Seals. It was recorded June 20–22, 1996 at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago, Illinois, and was produced by Son Seals and Bruce Iglauer.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Live – Spontaneous Combustion” as 1996 live album by Son Seals. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Live, Spontaneous and Combustion.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Live, Spontaneous and Combustion providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Live – Spontaneous Combustion”, the useful work is to connect “1996 live album by Son Seals” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Live – Spontaneous Combustion” 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.