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Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music creativity 's debut album should haveAuthor: David Remnick NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our timeintimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more. The greatest popular songs, whether its Respect sung by Aretha Franklin or Blind Willie McTell performed by Bob Dylan, have a way of embedding themselves