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Artist: Devendra Banhart Title: Rejoicing In the Hands Price: $14.75	Tracks on this CD:
	This Is The Way
	A Sight To Behold
	The Body Breaks
	Poughkeepsie
	Dogs They Make Up the Dark
	Will Is My Friend
	This Beard Is For Siobhan
	See Saw
	Tit Smoking In the Temple of Artesan Mimicry
	Rejoicing In the Hands
	Fall
	Todo Los Dolores
	When the Sun Shone On Vetiver
	There Was Sun
	Insect Eyes
	Autumn's Child

When it comes to “folk” music I’ve always been more of a British Folk guy. Somehow the distinction makes immediate sense in my head. Bert Jansch = British Folk. Joan Baez not British Folk. Fairport Convention = British Folk. James Taylor not folk at all. I put 23 year old Devandra Banhart’s new release Rejoicing In the Hands in my British Folk category. Described by Arthur magazine as “combining old-time blues with the troubadour-ish balladry, psychedelic rock and acoustic traditions of folk,” Rejoicing displays a raw intimacy evident on those great ‘60s recordings by Jansch and Davy Graham. Banhart’s guitar playing isn’t in that stellar league, but the influences are evident, and his song titles (“Dogs They Make Up the Dark,” This Beard is for Siobahn,” “Tit Smoking in the Temple of Artesan Mimicry,” and “When the Sun Shone on Vetiver,” for example!) remind of the very-British-Folk Incredible String Band.