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Theatre West Bow to the People

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Jazz

2×LP STRUT252LP£23.00
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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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