wherever i traveled towards the end of 2005 & the beginning of 2006, devendra was definitely with me. everyone around me was subjected to his musical charm whether they liked it or not. cripple crow was just that good. it was quite simply the best folk album we never heard in the late sixties or seventies. devendra is quite simply too young to have grown beside this genre of music but yet he possesses the ability to create that homegrown sound. whether he is rambling incessantly about the idiosyncratic & the quirky or simply giving his honest views about war in general, devendra manages to hold the listener's attention through 20 some od tracks. i could easily see fans of the beatles, cat stevens, & woody guthrie flocking to the store on this note. hey, even bob dylan or santana fans would probably dig a great deal of the material here. no disappointments to speak of.