The 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 Holding the Note
David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest 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. These are intimate
portraits of some of the greatest creative minds of our time written with a lifetime's
passionate attachment to music that has shaped us all.
