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Watercourse Way

album by Shadowfax

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ7973938 ↗
Source-derived summary

Watercourse Way is the debut album by Chicago progressive rock/new-age band Shadowfax, released in 1976 on Passport Records (and subsequently re-released by Windham Hill in 1985).

Editorial summary

“Watercourse Way” enters the record as album by Shadowfax. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Watercourse, album and Shadowfax can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1976, 1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Watercourse, album and Shadowfax.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Watercourse Way” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Watercourse, album and Shadowfax provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7973938. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 1985.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Watercourse Way”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Watercourse Way primary sources, Watercourse Way archive and Watercourse 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 “Watercourse Way”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Watercourse Way” 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.