What is "palo santo"

n. South American tree of dry interior regions of Argentina and Paraguay having resinous heartwood used for incense [syn: Bulnesia sarmienti]

Palo Santo is Shearwater's fourth full-length album, released on May 9, 2006, on Misra Records. The album was re-released in an expanded, partly re-recorded, fully remastered and repackaged edition on April 10, 2007, on the label Matador Records. Jonathan Meiburg stated in Shearwater's January 15, 2011, performance at Austin's Central Presbyterian Church (a concert recorded for the band's live album The Island Arc), that the album is about Nico, the German singer who became famous with the Velvet Underground.