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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

Time now for the song that changed my life.

It's a segment we do with musicians who tell us about the songs that made them who they are.

This week, it's Devendra Banhart. That the wind blows Nard is a singer. Oh, it was the early 2000s. And back then, his recordings were simple,

usually a classical guitar, one mic,

maybe two mics, if he was feeling elaborate,

and his voice, warbling and almost ancient.

The body breaks and the body is fine.

I'm open to yours and I'm open to mine the body aches and that ache takes its time

but you'll get over yours and I'll get over mine and the sun will shine and the moon will rise. Those early albums like Nino Rojo and Rejo in the Hands were hits, beloved by critics and college students everywhere.

The writers lumped Banhart's music alongside acts like Animal Collective and Joanna Newsom

in a genre called Freak Folk. It was the early 2000s. But Banhart's

discography is hard to pin down. He's recorded ambient music, 60s fuzz rock, 80's new wave, tropicalia,

sometimes all of them on the same record.

Aetu primo collo-tourado

with a par-tampurada. And heart's latest album is Flying

Cleanand those tell soul.

The Ryan of the Euro

Aes de la Roa's latest album is Flying Whig. Here's a single from it. Sirens. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh,

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