Cripple Crow was released on XL Recordings

XL Recordings

XL Recordings is a British independent record label owned by Richard Russell. It originated as a 1989 offshoot of Beggars Banquet Records.Though only releasing an average of six albums a year, XL Recordings has worked with The Prodigy, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A., Vampire...

 on September 13, 2005. It is the fifth album by psych folk

Psych folk

Psychedelic folk or psych folk is a loosely defined form of psychedelic music that originated in the 1960s through the fusion of folk music and psychedelic rock...

 acoustic rocker Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...

 and his first for the label XL Recordings

XL Recordings

XL Recordings is a British independent record label owned by Richard Russell. It originated as a 1989 offshoot of Beggars Banquet Records.Though only releasing an average of six albums a year, XL Recordings has worked with The Prodigy, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A., Vampire...

. The cover is reminiscent of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band The Beatles, released on 1 June 1967 on the Parlophone label and produced by George Martin...

 and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

-Personnel:*Robin Williamson - vocals, guitar, gimbri, penny whistle, percussion, pan pipe, piano, oud, mandolin, jaw harp, chahanai, water harp, harmonica*Mike Heron - vocals, sitar, Hammond organ, guitar, hammered dulcimer, harpsichord...

album covers.

Track listing

All songs written by Devendra Banhart, except where noted.

1. "Now That I Know" – 4:53
2. "Santa Maria Da Feira" – 4:35
3. "Heard Somebody Say" – 3:20
4. "Long Haired Child" – 3:45
5. "Lazy Butterfly" – 4:00
6. "Quedate Luna" – 3:07
7. "Queen Bee" – 2:44
8. "I Feel Just Like a Child" – 4:46
9. "Some People Ride the Wave" – 2:27
10. "The Beatles" – 1:44
11. "Dragonflys" – 0:59
12. "Cripple Crow" – 5:58
13. "Inaniel" – 3:43
14. "Hey Mama Wolf" – 3:52
15. "Hows About Tellin a Story" – 1:21
16. "Chinese Children" – 5:17
17. "Sawkill River" – 1:52
18. "I Love That Man" – 2:26
19. "Luna de Margarita" (Simon Diaz
    Simón Díaz
    Simón Narciso Díaz Márquez is a singer and Grammy Award winning composer of Venezuelan music.- Career :Díaz has endeavored to recover the folklore and musical traditions of the llanos, the Venezuelan plains...
    
    ) – 2:07
20. "Korean Dogwood" – 4:02
21. "Little Boys" – 5:20
22. "Canela" – 1:53

The CD release of this album also includes an MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 bonus track "White Reggae Troll/Africa".

Bonus tracks on double LP

The double LP release of this album includes eight additional tracks, as well as an alternative cover of the normal album cover replaced with photographs of Devendra's own fans.

23. "There's Always Something Happening"
24. "La Ley"
25. "Chicken"
26. "Stewed Bark of an Old Oak Tree"
27. "La Pastorcita Perdida"
28. "Likety Split"
29. "Ice Rat"
30. "White Reggae Troll"

Personnel

• Devendra Banhart – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals, producer, mixing, album art direction
• Emma O'Donnell – fiddle
• Gus – dog
• Andy Cabic
  Andy Cabic
  Andy Cabic is a folk rock singer-songwriter, and lead member of the band Vetiver.He was born in Virginia and attended school at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he played in a band called The Raymond Brake...
  
   – producer
• Noah Georgeson
  Noah Georgeson
  Noah Georgeson is a musician, producer, and solo recording artist. Georgeson's debut album Find Shelter was released through Plain Recordings on November 28, 2006. He is credited as having "written, scored, arranged, recorded, and produced" the entirety of Find Shelter, according to a press...
  
  – producer, engineer, mixing
• Thom Monahan – producer, engineer, mixing
• Galen Pehrson – album art
• Alissa Anderson – album art