The 2018 edition of the SXSW Music Festival was my 27th straight immersion in that rite of spring. SXSW is now a very different event in size, glamour and commercial urgency from the one I first knew in 1991, when the entire conference fit into one hotel and the biggest – and best – show I saw was a West Texas song-a-thon by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Joe Ely.
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This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: David Fricke’s Picks From SXSW: Psychedelic Folk, Seventies Glam-Prog and More
