‘Cripple Crow’ at 20: Devendra Banhart on His Bilingual Ode to Folk & Latin Legends and the Importance of ‘Finding Your Tribe’
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“Everyone was invited — including the dog,” Devendra Banhart chuckles over Zoom, looking back on Cripple Crow, his sprawling 2005 opus that was part artistic manifesto, part communal love letter. Dubbed “freak folk” at the time, the genre-bending opus was, in his words, “a snapshot of community,” where Brazilian-inspired tropicalismo, psych-folk and radical inclusivity collided. […]