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    Theatre West Bow to the People

    Strut
    • Theatre West – Searching for Ourselves
    • Theatre West – Crossroads
    • Theatre West – Bow to the People
    • Theatre West – Black Love
    • Theatre West – One Little Chance
    • Theatre West – Big Brother
    • Theatre West – Children of Tomorrow's Dreams
    • Theatre West – No More Junk
    • Theatre West – Della Get Down
    • Theatre West – I Am a Woman
    • 1. Searching for Ourselves
    • 2. Crossroads
    • 3. Bow to the People
    • 4. Black Love
    • 5. One Little Chance
    • 6. Big Brother
    • 7. Children of Tomorrow's Dreams
    • 8. No More Junk
    • 9. Della Get Down
    • 10. I Am a Woman
    • 11. I Really Like It
    • 12. Puppet
    • 13. Cool Out Your Mind
    • 14. Man of Many Means (Previously Unreleased)
    • 15. I Don't Know Much About Love (Previously Unreleased)

    Strut reissue one of the most in-demand and significant albums from the archives of Jimmy Gray’s Black Fire Records, ‘Bow To The People’ (1976) by theatre collective Theatre West, based out of Dayton, Ohio.

    Shelved following the original recording, the Bow To The People album eventually surfaced on a limited CD on Black Fire in 1993. Now receiving its first full international release, the album features the previously unreleased tracks ‘Man Of Many Means’ and ‘I Don’t Knpw Much About Love’.

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