Devendra Banhart, Sept. 29, TLA

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Devendra Banhart, Sept. 29, TLA

POSTED: Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 11:49 AM

Filed Under: Music Show

Photo | Fuzzy Bird (via Flickr, not a recent shot)

I'm high and I'm happy and I'm free.

Devendra Banhart lovers, we are one and the same. However, I won’t lie: my first twenty-or-so impressions of Smokey Rolls Down the Thunder Canyon did not make me want to touch my freak-folk geek self. But when Banhart and his six-man band harmonized like bearded Diana Rosses and Mary Wilsons on “Rosa” and synched up various percussion instruments like a perfect giant organism in “So Long Old Bean,” I was a believer. Did I mention Banhart dubbed his band “Spiritual Boner” for the night? And called Philly a mecca for magicians? Shit, now I’m downright obsessed with the man. Other gems: Banhart’s waa-waa-waas in “Bad Girl” were giddy and made every lady in the room shimmy. Then he ripped off his Renaissance Faire vest for the encore, “Little Yellow Spider,” and squealed, groaned and grunted one last time. Smokey is a man’s musical evolution so far into time that I literally had to wait until the future to fall in love with it. But Banhart’s shirtlessness during the last song helped with that, too.

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