Noah Georgeson

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Noah Georgeson is a musician, producer, and now solo artist whose debut album Find Shelter was released on Plain Recordings on November 28, 2006.^[1] Born January 19, 1975 in Nevada City, California, he first found success as a part of San Francisco band The Pleased, along with fellow member Joanna Newsom. He has played guitar in Devendra Banhart's live band, and produced both Banhart's Cripple Crow, and Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon as well as Joanna Newsom's The Milk-Eyed Mender, and Bert Jansch's The Black Swan. On his album, he is credited as having "written, scored, arranged, recorded, and produced" the entirety of Find Shelter, according to a press release from Plain Recordings. It has also been said the Devendra Banhart song "Noah" from his album Nino Rojo was written about Georgeson. He is credited as a songwriter on four songs from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon: Lover, Saved, Samba Vexilographica, and Tonada Yanomaminista.

Noah received his Master's Degree in music composition from Mills College in Oakland, California in 2003, and has studied with Terry Riley, Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros and Fred Frith.

He is the touring guitar player in Devendra Banhart's band.

Georgeson's personal attributes have been known to be the inspiration for Banhart's band name, Spiritual Bonerz.