Devendra Banhart has released "Taking a Page," a fourth song from his new album, Ma, which is due September 13 on Nonesuch. The track can be heard below and is available to download now with pre-orders of the album, along with the previously released tracks "Kantori Ongaku" ("Country Music"), "Abre Los Manos" ("Open Your Hands"), and "Memorial."

Describing the genesis of the song—for which he sought special permission from Carole King to lift a line and melody from her beloved 1971 classic "So Far Away"—Banhart says, "I'm not sure what 'Taking a Page' is about, at least I'm not sure of how to synthesize it into something pithy. I definitely know it's about how much I can't stand car chases and those long drawn out guitar solos (though I've certainly been guilty of plenty of em!). I do remember the night Trump won—the shock and fear. I instinctively reached for a Carole King album. I knew it would help. I knew it would come in handy … and it did. Still does. I'm so glad Carole got to hear it. It's really just a song about my entire life. I can't explain it much beyond that."

Carole King's immediate response upon hearing the song: "I like it."

Banhart will begin an extensive North American tour at Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California, on September 27. This twenty-six-date run of shows is his first tour of North America since 2017. Earlier this week, Banhart confirmed new European dates for early 2020, tickets for which go on sale Friday.

For his US tour, Banhart is partnering with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold in the US will go to World Central Kitchen (WCK), an organization founded by Nobel Peace Prize–nominated chef José Andrés to fight hunger around the world. WCK is currently responding to the crisis on the Colombia–Venezuela border and has served more than 350,000 meals to date.

DEVENDRA BANHART ON TOUR