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Bobby Kent
Album: Glide Memorial's Bobby Kent
Label: Olympia
Released: 1976
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Religious, Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock

A1 My Soul Is Satisfied
A2 I Can't Help But Serve The Lord
A3 The Lord Is Blessing Me, Jesus Woke Me Up
A4 Christian Automobile
B1 Dr. Jesus (Adopted From Dr. Feelgood)
B2 Come To The Fountain
B3 Hallelujah, 'Tis Done (Prayer taken from works of A. Cecil Williams)
B4 Livin' In The Last Days
B5 Power In The Blood

Bobby Kent passed away at age 78 in Omaha, Nebraska on March 14, 2024. He was a gay hippy gospel singer with two albums out, "Glide Memorial's Bobby Kent" (1976) and "Juice" (1980). He performed to thousands in San Francisco and Berlin. He performed with the Cockettes and Jon Sugar. He grew up singing in his grandmother's Pentecostal church. The San Francisco Bay Area was the scene for much of what made the 1960’s and 1970’s what they were, and this album is right in the groove of that.
Glide Memorial is one of the premier black liberal churches in the U.S. It was in the forefront of many causes in the 1960’s, including homosexual rights. Like the church, this album is a mould breaker. Black gospel, like the older forms of country and western music, had many specific rules about what was acceptable and what wasn’t. Bobby Kent set out to push the envelope, and the result is a fast moving, delightful combination of what Ken Scott refers to as “Two parts black gospel, one part rock ‘n’ roll and one part blues.” But there are other unique parts of this album. The first is that, for an album that screams “black music,” Bobby Kent was white, a sort of Jimi Hendrix in reverse. Beyond that, the theology that gets put forth in this music is not only very “unliberal,” (there are some great traditional hymns here) but gets into the realm of prosperity teaching! He called his group the “Cadillac Christians,” and in a ecclesiastical/political environment where good things come from the government, that’s quite a statement.