{"product_id":"holding-the-note-profiles-in-popular-music-9780375702310","title":"Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBEST SELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time--intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe greatest popular songs, whether it's \"Respect\" sung by Aretha Franklin or \"Blind Willie McTell\" performed by Bob Dylan, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling whenever you hear them. In \u003ci\u003eHolding the Note\u003c\/i\u003e, David Remnick writes about some of the most influential musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years. He portrays a series of musical lives--Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more--and their unique encounters with the passing of that essential element of music: time. From Cohen's performing debut, when his stage fright was so debilitating he couldn't get through \"Suzanne,\" to Franklin's iconic mink-drop at the Kennedy Center, \u003ci\u003eHolding the Note\u003c\/i\u003e delivers intimate portraits of some of the greatest creative minds of our era, written with a passionate lifelong attachment to their music and an acute appreciation of how it has shaped us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDAVID REMNICK has been the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 1998 and before that was a staff writer for the magazine for six years. He was previously \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e's correspondent in Moscow. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eKing of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography of Muhammad Ali, named the top nonfiction book of the year by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine in 1998, and \u003ci\u003eLenin's Tomb\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878121443602,"sku":"9780375702310","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_142e750e-a836-4d78-a491-bec8897d49b3.jpg?v=1738168519","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/holding-the-note-profiles-in-popular-music-9780375702310","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}