Guide Note

This page contains links to guitar tabs for the eccentric folk singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart.

Fast Facts

1. Name: Devendra Banhart
2. Born: May 30, 1981
3. Genres: Folk, Psychedelic Rock
4. Origin: Houston, Texas, but raised in Caracas, Venezuela
5. Years active: 2002 - present
6. Labels: XL Recordings, Young God Records

• 2002: Oh Me Oh My
• 2004: Rejoicing in the Hands
• 2004: Niño Rojo
• 2005: Cripple Crow
• 2007: Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

• "For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music,” he said. “It’s a perfect kind of fusion of pop catchiness, harmony, bad-ass kind of oomph, and pain".—Devendra Banhart¹

• "Banhart's voice might be a cross of Tim Buckley's flutter, Marc Bolan's timbre, and Tiny Tim's vibrato, but I would be hard pressed to claim he was imitating anyone. Similarly, his songs hit like sea chanteys started by Syd Barrett and then left mysteriously half-finished".—Pitchfork²