SXSW 2014-17 - Liberty

After I was reminded of this year's SXSW get-together and listened to the 100 songs posted online by NPR to celebrate it, I looked for prior years' collections and found 2014-2017 were still available, which was all the encouragement I needed to add a few more sets focused on this annual event as companions to the original "Years of Cool" set. Selections from this huge amount of material fell into three loosely-themed sets, based around the vibes of longing, love and liberty. This is the LIBERTY set.

Liberty in this context is about your right to grapple with your own life and wrestle it into whatever shape you are strong enough to produce: thus the prevalence of get-a-grip lyrics in this session (also some NSFW hip-hop taking us to the edge.)

Fine work here, full of tough love and optimism -- but this is just 16 out of 400 tracks, which I encourage you to check out for yourselves.