Editing Old Regular Baptists (section)

==Lined-out hymnody==
One feature of worship that has garnered much attention for the Old Regular Baptists is their [[Lining out|lined-out]], non-instrumental, congregational [[hymn]]ody. According to Jeff Titon,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/festival1997/baptists.htm|title=Old Regular Baptists of Southeastern Kentucky: A Community of Sacred Song}}</ref> "The leader sings the very first line, and the congregation joins in when they recognize the song. After that, the song proceeds line by line: the leader briefly chants a line alone, and then the group repeats the words but to a tune that is much longer and more elaborate than the leader's chant or lining tune." E. D. Thomas' ''Hymns and Spiritual Songs'' (1877) and Edward W. Billups' ''The Sweet Songster'' (1854) are two of several "words-only" hymn books preferred by these churches, with the tunes taught aurally. The practice of [[lining out]] psalms and hymns was once common across Britain and America, but in the British Isles, the only remaining vestige of the tradition can be found in the [[Outer Hebrides]] of [[Scotland]], where it is done in [[Gaelic psalm singing|Gaelic]].

[[Smithsonian Folkways]] recorded the Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptists for a 1997 album called ''Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky |url=https://folkways.si.edu/indian-bottom-association/old-regular-baptists-lined-out-hymnody-from-southeastern-kentucky/american-folk-sacred/music/album/smithsonian |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Smithsonian Folkways Recordings |language=en-US}}</ref> This same congregation also provided lined-out singing for the soundtrack to the 2019 film ''[[The Mountain Minor]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mountain Minor Soundtrack (2020) |url=https://www.soundtrack.net/album/the-mountain-minor/ |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=www.soundtrack.net}}</ref>