One Good Well
song
"One Good Well" is a song written by Mike Reid and Kent Robbins, and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams. It was released in April 1989 as the first single and title track from the album One Good Well. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
“One Good Well” enters the record as song. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Good, Well and song can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“One Good Well” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Good, Well and song provides the most credible route into that argument.
Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 8, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q7092685. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989.
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.
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This entry incorporates text from “One Good Well” 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.