Dan Smith
Album: God Is Not Dead
Label: Biograph
Released: 1971
Genre: Funk / Soul, Blues
Style: Gospel

Dan Smith : Vocals, Harmonica
Michael Cooney: Banjo, Guitar
Jack Hume: Bass, Bottle-neck Guitar
Bill Vanaver: Guitar, Mandolin, Maracas
Bessie Jones: Tambourine, Handclaps, Vocals

Producer – Arnold S. Caplin
Engineer – Bill Spence
Recorded at the Bottom Forty Recording Studios, East Condor, N.Y.
Mastered at Mastertone Recording Studios, Inc.
Manufactured by Biograph Records, Inc.
Artwork, Photography by Jon Henry
Liner Notes by Pete Seeger

A1 Life Is Sweet
A2 Do You Know The Lord Laid His Hand On You
A3 Seminary Vs. Calvary
A4 This Is The Lord's House
A5 I'm Moving On
A6 Long Handle Spoon (Tk. 2)
B1 Babylon Is Falling Down (Tk. 2)
B2 Go Ye And Preach My Gospel
B3 Where Shall I Be When The First Trumpet Sounds (Tk. 2)
B4 At The Table With The Lord (Tk. 1)
B5 Jesus Is Coming Back
B6 Every Day Will Be Sunday
B7 God Is Not Dead (Tk. 2)
Written-By – Dan Smith (A1, A3, A6, B1, B2, B4, B5, B6)
A2, A5, B3, B7 marked as public domain.

Premium authentic folk/blues sounds of the highest caliber featuring African American harmonica wailer and singer Dan Smith (i.e., Dan J. Smith, Rev. Dan Smith). Joining him on this recording are Bessie Jones (tambourine, clapping, second vocal), Michael Cooney (banjo, guitar), Bill Vanaver (guitar, mandolin, maracas) and Jack Hume (bass, bottleneck guitar). There’s so much enthusiasm and sincerity jumping around in these jams you can’t help but be pulled in, whether they’re originals like ‘Life Is Sweet’, ‘Seminary Vs. Calvary’, ‘Long Handle Spoon’, ‘Babylon Is Falling Down’, ‘Go Ye And Preach The Gospel’ and ‘Jesus Is Coming Back’, or public domain songs such as ‘Do You Know The Lord Laid His Hand On You’, ‘I’m Moving On’, ‘Where Shall I Be When The First Trumpet Sounds’ and the title track. Perfect hands-off production lets the natural vibes carry through. Liner notes by Pete Seeger. Dan also recorded a CD on The Choir’s Glasshouse label in the early 90s. (Archivist: Vintage Vinyl Jesus Music, 5th Edition)

Dan Smith was born on January 23, 1911 on a plantation called the "Old Coxel Place" near Perdue Hill in Monroe County, Alabama. Reverend Dan J Smith passed away November 16, 1994 at the age of 83 in the Bronx, New York City. Dan Smith sang in church and played harmonica as a child. He didn’t begin his professional career until the early ’60s, when he played behind folk legends Rev. Gary Davis and Pete Seeger. Dan Smith is best known to CCM enthusiasts for his duet with Julie Miller on the latter's 'He Walks Through Walls' album and to blues aficionados for his album on Biograph 'God Is Not Dead'. Rev Dan after many years living the life of an itinerant street musician and evangelist, was latterly managed by Tochi Seeger (wife of folk legend Pete Seeger) and in 1992 recorded a critically acclaimed gospel blues album 'Just Keep Going On' for Glasshouse. Michael Hakarson-Stacy's Time And Strike label has assembled an album of live Dan Smith recordings 'Live At Fox Hollow: 1969-1980'.
BLUES HARMONICA player, singer and street evangelist Rev. Dan Smith was born on January 23, 1911 and died in November. Best known to Gospel music enthusiasts for his duet with Julie Miller on the latter’s ‘He Walks Through Walls’ album and to blues aficionados for his album on Biograph ‘God Is Not Dead’. The Rev. Dan, after many years living the life of an itinerant street musician and evangelist, was latterly managed by Tochi Seeger (wife of folk legend Pete Seeger) and in 1992 recorded a critically acclaimed gospel blues album ‘Just Keep Going On’ for Glasshouse. Michael Hakarson-Stacy’s Time And Strike label has assembled an album of live Dan Smith recordings ‘Live At Fox Hollow: 1969-1980′. On a personal note, the album “just keep goin’ on” has a permanent place in my heart as it arrived at a difficult time in my life many moons ago…. chock full of amazing lyrics, musicianship and the voice of the good Reverend…. crackly, scratchy and full of vintage wisdom and experiences. Alabama’s Reverend Dan J. Smith started living the blues right around the same time he began playing it. Born in 1911, he was enraptured with the sounds he heard at his Perdue Hill church. By 12, he was out of school and working hard labor, but music still had a hold on him. As he matured into a young man, his prodigious harmonica playing earned him distinction and attention, but, as the back cover of his self-titled lp states, he was forced to abandon his musical practice as it “led to some bad breaks in the South.” In the late forties, he lost his voice for some time. In 1960, an industrial accident left him temporarily blind. By 1970, Smith—bolstered by associations with Pete Seeger—was ready to turn all that grief into something sacred, issuing an album of primarily original material.

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