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.

Various Artists
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.