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Dirt (Dean Brody album)

album by Dean Brody

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ5280925 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dirt is the third studio album by Canadian country music artist Dean Brody. It was released on April 24, 2012 via Open Road Recordings under the production of Matt Rovey. Its first single, "Canadian Girls," peaked at number 36 on the Canadian Hot 100 in February 2012.

Dirt was nominated for Country Album of the Year at the 2013 Juno Awards.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dirt (Dean Brody album)” as album by Dean Brody. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-04-24. The account is most persuasive where Dirt, Dean and Brody can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

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

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 Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5280925. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2013.

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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 “Dirt (Dean Brody 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.