{"product_id":"9781400043613","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing “Respect” or Bob Dylan performing “Blind Willie McTell,” have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In \u003ci\u003eHolding the Note\u003c\/i\u003e, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe portrays a series of musical lives 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 a view of some of the greatest creative minds of our time written with a lifetime’s passionate attachment to music that has shaped us all.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47918129414384,"sku":"9781400043613","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400043613_p0.jpg?v=1763769167","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400043613","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}