Unlike seemingly every other music critic in America, I didn’t submit a ballot to the New York Times’ big greatest-living-American-songwriter project, mostly because nobody asked me to. That probably makes sense; I’m not really known as a singer-songwriter guy (or even a songs guy). But if anyone had asked me, I would have put Bill Callahan at the top o…
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