Not very many years come along where we’d be talking about a presumptive winner for the album of the year Grammy 10 months from the date that award is given out. Neither do times come along very often where we would necessarily be considering someone a likely shoo-in for a major award when that person has famously been nominated for it four times and lost every time.
But never before has there been a year that has brought us a “Cowboy Carter,” and so all bets are off, when it comes to placing our bets very, very early. If wagering this far out is never completely safe, it still
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