Categories include Best Spoken Word Album for Children, Best Album Notes, Best Tropcial Latin Album, etc.
For example, Billy Vera won a Grammy for writing the best album notes.
With Lennon, McCartney, and Brian Wilson cited among Peter Fedofsky's primary musical influences, it's no surprise that his second RPM Challenge album, Notes from the Shuttle shimmers with pleasant harmonies, buoyant melodies, and well-placed hand claps.
In the notes for his latest album, Dhani thanks Syekh Lemah Abang ("Reddish-brown earth") -- a reference to the town where Siti Jenar once lived.
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"When I wrote the lyrics I thought of the Camus quote from the liner notes to a Scott Walker album, " he says.
The recording's overall mood, recalling the manic days of the 1960s, is something like a hyperactive Beatles album, an impression heightened by liner notes with a comic-strip layout and larky photographs.
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The album is filled with family photos, mementos and small notes that Drew can touch and see while his father is far away in Iraq.
And if I did want the whole album, the expectation of the production savings (no liner notes to print, no plastic case, no shipping) creates an expectation that I will pay less for that, a perception that has driven down the price of CDs to compete with digital albums.
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Australian outfit No Anchor understand how to make sinister noise-rock that sounds great: Their 2011 album, Real Pain Supernova, includes slabs of distorted bass notes that rumble and quake, sludgy riffs played at a crawling pace, shrieks of feedback that shoot skyward, and harrowing vocals punctuated with shrill wailing.
Sometimes Ms. Sutton's approach to the rephrasing of a hoary standard, which this album is chock full of, seems merely decorative, a canny way of avoiding the notes as written.
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