December 12, 2000 -- What's that you say? You have a beer lover on your Christmas list and you can't for the life of you think of a suitable gift? Well, search no longer. World of Beer has found the perfect present for the beer aficionado on your list.

Beer!

Well, think about it, what else would a beer drinker want? But just in case that doesn't work for you for some reason, there are alternatives. One of these is the beer-soaked music of the Rolling Boil Blues Band.

If you are familiar with the band of authors featuring the likes of Stephen King and Dave Barry, then you will understand the idea behind the Rolling Boil Blues Band, or as the cognoscenti know them, RB3. Composed entirely of beer folk, most from California, it started out as a laugh and has grown to the cd and tour t-shirt stage. Next, I predict a video on MTV.

Or maybe not. Despite the apparent sex appeal of lead guitarist and vocalist, Celebrator Beer News publisher Tom Dalldorf, it must be admitted that Bootleg Boil, the RB3 debut recorded live in Berkeley, California, is not exactly Top 40 stuff. But for someone with a sense of humour and an interest in beer, it could make a good stocking stuffer.

There are a dozen tracks on Bootleg Boil, all beer-ized covers of existing tunes. So instead of Neil Young's angry "This Bud's For You," you get RB3's more genial "This Beer's For You." "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats becomes "Hop This Town;" Lieber and Stoller's "Kansas City" mutates into "Goin' to Berkeley City;" and "Tequila!" becomes -- what else? -- "Beer!" About the only song that doesn't get the once over is Floyd Dickson's "Hey Bartender," mainly because it doesn't need it.

Put it all together and you have a disc that may not have record company execs reaching for their signing pens, but should have you chuckling while you reach into the fridge for a bottle of something tasty. Besides, how can you resist a recording that features the immortal line "He can get the dead to flocculate"?

Bootleg Blues

by the Rolling Boil Blues Band

$15.95 + $2.50 s&h

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