{"product_id":"9780375702310","title":"Holding the Note","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 “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.","brand":"David Remnick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47564087263444,"sku":"9780375702310","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f97e59f0-6e81-420e-9750-c04aa90b24bc.jpg?v=1771374066","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780375702310","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}