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Relix Gift Guide – Part One

Relix offers a few music-inspired gift ideas for the holiday season

Jimi Hendrix
West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
Experience Hendrix/Legacy
$69.98

If you thought two box sets were enough to contain Jimi Hendrix’s mighty legacy, then you’re thankfully mistaken. The 4-CD/1-DVD West Coast Seattle Boy box set compiles stellar examples—45 heard here for the first time—from the entire arc of the guitarist’s career. From his early days of killer R&B with The Isley Brothers and Little Richard to outtakes with the Experience that include Dave Mason on sitar to 20-minute studio jam sessions with jazz organist Larry Young, the collection is a must-have for any ‘60s music fan. The 90-minute documentary showcases never before seen performance footage as well examples of Hendrix’s personal drawings and sketches.

Bruce Springsteen
The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story
Columbia
$119.98

If you thought Bruce Springsteen’s body of work could be kept to two box sets—the essential Live 1975-1985 and collector favorite Tracks —you’d be happily mistaken. The first album to get the “deluxe” treatment, it delivers a remastered version of Darkness on the Edge of Town, a two-disc set of 21 unreleased songs from the original sessions plus a 90-minute documentary of never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978, including home rehearsals and studio sessions with new interviews with Springsteen and the band. In addition—and this is the real kicker—there more than four hours of live concert film that including a 1978 Houston show and a 2009 performance of the album in its entirety from Asbury Park, N.J.

Various Artists
Clapton Crossroads 2010
Rhino
$29.99

Not just anyone can convince guitar heroes like Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy and Warren Haynes to donate their time and axe-might to charity. But, year after year, Eric Clapton has managed to bring together a who’s who of guitar gods for a day-long benefit for his Crossroads rehabilitation center. The latest installment of his festival—captured on this choice two-disc DVD set—mixes blues vets with modern guitar jam heroes like Derek Trucks and Robert Randolph. Emcee Billy Murray also adds a touch of comedy to a day filled with incendiary guitar solos.

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