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liner notes

plural noun

  1. the US name for sleeve notes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The CMA has not commented on their reasons for overlooking her album, but according to their judging criteria, the album of the year prize is "judged on all aspects including, but not limited to, artist’s performance, musical background, engineering, packaging, design, art, layout and liner notes".

From BBC

In 2015, Shkreli paid $2 million to purchase “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” an album the acclaimed New York hip-hop group released as a single-copy, double-CD edition in a custom nickel box and leather-bound liner notes, with no other streaming or physical release.

Starting in an era when midcentury jazz experienced a resurgence of interest, his name showed up in the fine print on over 2,600 albums, most of them reissues, many of which included his painstaking liner notes.

Apart from 10 sizzling organ numbers — including a cover of the titular Bill Withers piece — “Ain’t No Sunshine” comes with 19 pages of graphics and liner notes, including aerial photography of 1970s Seattle and an interview with one of the city’s present-day organ gurus, Delvon Lamarr.

He taught blues history at Wayne State University; hosted radio programs in Detroit, New Orleans and Amsterdam; and wrote liner notes for albums by artists including The Isley Brothers and Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.

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