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Relix Gift Guide – Part One

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The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Time Life Entertainment
$39.99

Taking a cue from The Jammy Awards, this three-DVD set documenting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary celebration at Madison Square Garden offers a dazzling number of artist pairings: Bruce Springsteen and John Fogerty, John Legend and Stevie Wonder, David Crosby and Graham Nash with Paul Simon—even Metallica doing and Ray Davies doing “All Day and All of the Night.” If that’s not enough, performances by cross-generational stars like U2, Simon and Garfunkel, Mick Jagger and B.B. King should help anyone run out the clock during awkward family time in front the DVD player.

Reefer Movie Madness
By Shirley Halperin and Steve Bloom
Abrams Image; 336 pages
$18.95

Where to go after writing 2008’s Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life? Why to the movies, of course. As with the previous book, Shirley Halperin and Steve Bloom blend their own observations and analysis, with plenty of sidebars including Margaret Cho’s “ Star Wars for Stoners,” Wayne Coyne’s thoughts on the Wizard of Oz and movie picks from Nathan Followill, Melissa Etheridge and Jason Mraz, among others. Fear not, Cheech & Chong are also on hand for some flashbacks as well. While Halperin and Bloom initially intended to limit themselves to 420 movie reviews, they nearly doubled their goal and the book is all the more potent for it.

Soul Mining: A Musical Life
By Daniel Lanois
Faber & Faber; 240 pages
$26.00

In the early-‘70s, Daniel Lanois created a recording studio in his Hamilton, Ontario basement and rolled tape on hundreds of artists, including Raffi and Rick James. One of his records caught the ears of Brian Eno, and the “Ambient Junkies” soon fostered a working relationship. This carried Lanois to Ireland in 1983 to work with U2 and then around the world for sessions with Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, the Neville Brothers, Willie Nelson and many others. Lanois shares the journey and shares some technical tips in this autobiography which also affirms his eye for detail and his wry sense of humor.

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