Various, Vermenton Plage, The Housemartins, Tarab Orchestra, Bhundu Boys, Flaco Jimenez, The San Antonio Tex Mex Band, Toumani Diabaté, Van Morrison, The Real Sounds, Toots & The Maytals, Najma

This Is Womad (Volume 1)

1987 · Folk Rock · WOMAD Records

UK · WOMAD 007

Tracklist

Credits

Producer: Amanda Jones, Bob Hooton, Thomas Brooman, Leslie Kong
Mixed by: Chris Brooman, Thomas Brooman
Arranged by: Vermenton Plage, Tarab Orchestra, Toumani Diabaté
Written by: Traditional, Paul Heaton, Stan Cullimore, Ted Key, Bhundu Boys, Son Takura, Robin Williamson, Jo Jo Kavund, Toots Hibbert
Mastered by: Alan McKershaw
Cut by: Steve Angel

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Where it leads

Paisley Underground

Punk kids who kept the fuzzboxes but put the Byrds and Love back on the turntable.

San Francisco Psychedelia

Ballroom bands who stretched blues and folk into twenty-minute jams, pressed before anyone edited them down.

Where to find it

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