...and that very special lil' extra

Music Festivals
Tom Clynes
Visible Ink, 1996. ISBN#: 0-7876-0823-8
softbound, 582 pages, B&W illus., $19
Reference. Fave. Just a great job. USA & Canada, grouped by region, then state by state, then by time of year, with good indexes. Tom also did the also excellent, more outrŽ, Wild Planet. Tom's on-line at www.festivalfinder.com. For more pop travel info check out Fodor's, Rock & Roll Traveler USA : The Ultimate Guide to Juke Joints, Street Corners, Whiskey Bars and Hotel Rooms Where Music History Was Made and the Rough Guides heavily featuring music in all their travel books. And don't forget our travel / buy records article in Paris

General reference on our desk at all times

Readers Encyclopedia
(William Rose BenŽt, Crowell, 1965). Just a delight to thumb through, when those questions reference more than music.

American Heritage Dictionary
(Houghton Mifflin). Our overly large one volume favorite.

Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion
(Leslie Halliwell, Scribner, 1980.) Just the best all around quick film reference there is. Officially they're up to 7th ed., ours is 4th., -- we're just wary of later editions of this book, new films reviewed by other people. And beware of anyone writing a book who reviews films on TV.

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