Until we have a feature film in which Bill Callahan's words are
spoken by the true and deep characters who exist within the
songs, the best format will be this lyric book-wait, no, the best
format will always be the albums featuring the songs, since they
are sung by Bill Callahan, the author and singer, in his own
inimitable and completely individual fashion.
The nuances and ambiguities within plain-spoke expression
are at the exquisite center of Callahan's gift, and the plain fact
of words on paper nails them down in a concrete fashion that
signals eternity somehow more concretely than sounds in the
air can conjure, I Drive a Valence does this for the listener-
makes him/her a reader, while putting Bill Callahan's songs
on another shelf where they sit just as entirely as they do on LP
shelves around the world.