Both of my great grandparents are in this!! My sweet Maw and Paw will always be greatly missed.

@Spector-l7f

2 жыл бұрын

piece be with you

I've been to this church, you could never meet better people if you traveled the earth over and over most are all gone now but not in our hearts and memories

its good to see some people keep the old traditions alive.

My childhood right here. I cry listening to old country churches

Went to this church as a child, my grandparents were members for many years. My grandparents have been gone for some time now, so there's soothes my soul like hearing these old hymns. 🥺

@Evaboii11

3 ай бұрын

Beautiful story godbless your grandparents I aswell go to the old regular baptist churches Antioch is the one I go too! ✝️😊

I spent every weekend of my childhood in an old Ranger Baptist Church whoever posted this thank you for the blessing

I' miss the way the old timers sing the hymns. Glad I got to grow up in that time as a child. Give God the glory

I'm not a religious person by any means but when I hear this music, along with similar music such as sacred harp, the hairs on my arms stand up and I feel enraptured by the sounds I am hearing. I'm overcome with emotion. It's remarkable.

@nelsonanderson2024

7 жыл бұрын

You're not alone there. A lot of sacred harp groups are largely secular people in certain areas.

@tylerbrown1962

6 жыл бұрын

Pual told king Agrippa I wish not that you were almost persuaded but all the way

@stewardforchrist

5 жыл бұрын

That’s the Holy Spirit. Don’t quench the spirit.

@psychomxntis

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, atheist, but this is pure gold.

@kevincrosby1760

2 жыл бұрын

@@psychomxntis your being moved by the music may very well be God reaching out to you. You might consider meeting with the preacher from your local Baptist church. Don't be shy! Tell him you are an Atheist and be honest about the reasons that you feel that there is no God. I think you will find that he has the answers at hand due to being asked the same questions many times...by his flock. If you start with "If there is a God, why does He allow such evil things to happen?", even Christians ask this same question. Short answer: Free Will. He wants people to come to him willingly. He gave us the Bible which lists the rewards for following him and the consequences for turning away. Which path we choose is up to us. Some choose to turn away from Him and commit horrible and evil acts. I'm not trying to play you. I am totally serious. A Baptist preacher is just a man who God has called to teach and lead others. Your asking him to prove God and to tell you what God expects of you should be handled no differently than you taking an algebra problem to your math teacher for guidance. Answering such questions is what he is called and trained to do...Nobody starts life as a Baptist...or a Christian.

This form of singing would probably have been familiar to the English and Ulster Scots colonists that settled the area as it was once common all over Protestant parts of the British Isles. It was also the main form of congregational worship in America up to the 19th century but died out in most regions.

@ruairidh3114

4 жыл бұрын

Scottish Gaelic Free Church music ,mainly from the Western Isles . Taken to America by Scots and Ulster Scots immigrants ,forerunner of bluegrass.

@philowen6739

Жыл бұрын

​@@ruairidh3114 Lining out was also widely practiced in England in the 17th century. Judging by the criticisms of 'learned musicians' from the time, it seems like it might have sounded quite a lot like this recording! (See N Temperley: The Music of the English Parish Church for more information).

@andreawheatley5528

Жыл бұрын

It's brought over from the UK where the majority of us is Scots/ Irish and some England, it's beautiful to my heart

Thank God To Bro Red & ALL The Southern Baptist Churches. Their REAL Spirit Filled..I Sure Miss Those Sunday Mornings! This Music soothes my Soul.. Played It 4 All My Children 😴 at bedtime to Sleep. Hope IT Enlightens You Spiritually

Reminds me of the old meter style singing in black churches. Very nice.

This is almost a thing of the past. Almost. The ancient songs of our forefathers are still being sung in remote places in Scotland and Kentucky.

@deeredwine6545

5 жыл бұрын

and in the hills of Ky Tenn Nc and Ohio

@jasoncreech1587

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. State borders does not divide us, it is a culture of people and tradition. Even oceans and the centuries could not separate it. As Jesus said, wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6 v 21

@GB-dj9db

3 жыл бұрын

We sing exactly like this in sw va too.

@elfunko8998

3 жыл бұрын

Please let it be a thing of the past soon! It is traumatic!

@mikejohnson515

3 жыл бұрын

@@deeredwine6545 West Virginia and Western Virginia too

A primal cry. Beautiful.

Nice seeing my grandfather Nat Polly and a lot of people I been to Church with growing up and miss all the ones who are no longer with us, but reside with Jesus

@brendabledsoe6694

5 жыл бұрын

Is this the church in McRoberts KY? I use to take my Granny there to chruch.

@Spector-l7f

2 жыл бұрын

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful singing ✝️

I Really Love these old Time songs. Don’t need man made instruments to have Heavenly Music ❤

This is how music at the church is supposed to be . Voices and strings .

@alexmacdonald01 agree with you 100 percent... One of the most beautiful sounds one will ever hear is hear old regular baptist singing from a distance. some of my fondess childhood memories is the sound of old regular baptist singing on a mountian top during a Sunday cemetary church service. Line singing echoing across the mountains is beautiful

Brings me to tears. Beautiful.

Totally agree!! Don't forget the little fans everytime we went also! Everytime I miss him - I get to listen to him and see his beautiful face!!! Love my Papaw!

@valkour22 In Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland and some Presbyterian churches still sing in this way, more often in Gaelic than in English.

Ive always loved the ole time line singing. With me being from Ky/WV area. There is nothing like it. Im in Central Ohio now and there are some churches around this area that still do the line singing.

@brendabledsoe6694

5 жыл бұрын

They still do this in Wise Co VA

Wow - so similar to psalming out, as heard in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. I presume that's where it was transported from.

@Vader99ify

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's exactly where that originated from. Also that is where bluegrass also originated from.

@TheAnn2shoes

10 жыл бұрын

Doug Faiella It's fascinating stuff, isn't it? Well it is to me anyway!

@sufficientgrace8375

7 жыл бұрын

Me too ! I'm hooked line and sinker. Love it.

This type of worship is much like some forms of German Baptist/Amish worship or of Hasidic Orthodox Judaism....it seems to be "dying Out" but is still very strongly ingrained in the people who were raised to it. I don't see it dying out of the collective consciousness any time soon. I am a member of the acapella Church of Christ ("noted" singing) and this brings up very strong feelings in me because my grandfather, Rant Bailey, loved this singing and led the songs in his church in Grahn, KY.

Beautiful!

Beautiful

This is beautiful!

We have to keep the faith and follow Jesus. Dont let what these old saints were doing for God to go unoticed.Keep going join with these folks and keep telling how wonderful Jesus Christ is and always has been.And God is still in control.

I grew up in a "lined out" singing church but that faded pretty fast when the old song leader died and the new one didn't line since we had lots of song books and most could read by then...kinda miss it...especially on "Amazing Grace"

@dbadagna My dad was a preacher here in Knott County. These songs bring back a lot of memories.

This has got to be some of the best lining out on record! @kentuckykid62: your papaw is an AMAZING liner-outer!

See a lot of people I knew from there including my Pappy, Nat Polly, the video was from 1983, but I went to that chuch a lot growing up the few years I was around there

omg are there churches that still do this? This practice is hundreds of yrs old !!

@jesusperceptions3281

Жыл бұрын

Pikeville ky

@bayswampkennels6386

Жыл бұрын

@@jesusperceptions3281 my granny tries to make it back to Pikeville several times a year to attend church I remember these services when I was a little boy. Her father ( my papaw kiser) was a preacher and a coal miner. Stayed up in Harrison new some branch.

@valkour22 The Old Regular Baptist denomination has a lot of churches, which are mostly in the coalfields of southeast Kentucky (Letcher County, Knott County, Floyd County, etc.) and the Wise area of southwest Virginia, but as Appalachian folks have moved into the Midwest there are also churches in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, etc., and even at least one in Florida. Read "The Old Regular Baptists of Central Appalachia: Brothers and Sisters in Hope" by Howard Dorgan for more.

Simply lovely. This makes me cry. The Amish and Hutterites line their singing too though they sing in German. But someone please tell me what's the little "StarWars" creature a doing there on the sacred desk at point 2:24 in the film??????

@gloriaslater8433

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing.

'Gaelic Psalms , Isle of Lewis'

@forsythga1988 That is a very familiar picture in old regular baptist churches in Eastern KY.

My grandpa was an Old Regular Baptist Preacher Brother Melvin Watts

@Spector-l7f

2 жыл бұрын

축복합니다

@dbadagna Yea, I lived in quicksand for 10 years. Then moved all around knott county. Now I'm living in beaver.

Black Baptist churches in the South still have times when they line hymns like this.

Was in need of a chant song and this came up. Wonder if any relation.

James Wright was an old regular baptist preacher. I would love to know who is related to Uncle John. I always loved to hear him sing.

@deenaoreilly1 When you say "music came into the church" do you mean musical instruments? Which church did this happen to? I've never heard of an ORB church that used musical instruments.

That's my grandpa, Bill Sparks with the curly white hair and red tie.

tried posting this to facebook but it won't because it says flash objects must have the 'source' and picture 'attributes' whatever that means ????

John Wright is my grandfather's brother- James Wrightt

@peihong33 If you are going to have language like that then why in the world are you listening to church music anyway?! Check out the year....1983. Do you remember what kind of video cameras they had then? Well I do - and for your information, they were zooming in on my granddaddy! and I loved it because he is no longer with us and I am now finally able to show my kids what church with my grandparents was like!

@tonycox3447

7 жыл бұрын

Anita Ford is john wright your grandfather? I knew him well and met him at the orb church in west Chester Ohio. He used to come to Big Creek orb church in DuPont In I have a file box of his that my stepdad gave me

@STProductionFilms No kidding, you make films there in Hindman?

This has been called 'waterfall singing'

Hard to think this was 40 years ago. Most of these men were probably born in the 1910s, or even the 1900s.

valkour22 Yes there are still churches that do this. I know atleast a few here in Centeral Ohio that do.

@derekwilson2519

8 жыл бұрын

When will you be in ohio? and what part? I can give you some church names. I go to this type of church

@Vader99ify

8 жыл бұрын

Reese Community Baptist Church in the south end of Columbus is like this.

@derekwilson2519

8 жыл бұрын

Little Angel Old Regular Baptist Church in Columbus

@derekwilson2519

8 жыл бұрын

usually 9:30

@lpslover8627

6 жыл бұрын

Doug Faiella I wonder if those churches are full of transplants from West Virginia or Kentucky? I am from WV. My father's entire family moved to Columbus from here when I was 3 to find work. I partially grew up in his house there. Many fond memories of Columbus......culture shock for sure, however. I remember my dad rebuking me for peeing off the porch once in that city of 2 million. I had grown accustomed to such In the mountains, where the stars and moon were the only lights at night. Ha Ha....fond memories.

@pixelator99 Hey Pixe...that's mine behind him! lol (John Wright).

why is there a graven image on the wall? i have never heard of having the catholic image of christ in an old school baptist church and i've been in the church for awhile.

@pjotrkedra

6 жыл бұрын

No. It's "Sallman Head" - & Sallman was a lifelong member of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America.

This breaks my heart for different reasons: a) the waning of spirit-filled Christianity b) the eventual loss of connection to the Gaelic history of our Scots Irish ancestors c) loss of connection to my childhood d) the forced "melting pot", multiculturalism and globalization......on and on. Please search on youtube, 'gaelic psalms' and compare this Appalachian style to Scotland...breaks my heart

Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church(Lining Hymns)

@dbadagna sweet

Oops. I didn't realize I typed two t's in Grandpaw's name

Thorton

Yoda was a Baptist.

@jongreenbaum250

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, what's up with the Yoda picture on the pulpit?

Shame that there are so few young faces around there. Nothing wrong with old-folks, just a shame to see them out-number everyone like that. Once upon a time, it wasn't like that. Also, where I come from it's considered impolite to talk while they are singing hymns; maybe that is different down South?

@Handymanherb

10 жыл бұрын

The younger people moved away from Old Regular Baptist to the regular Baptist that met every Sunday, Regular Baptist would be in a different Church every Sunday, in different areas of the county,o you only go to the Churches you could walk to back then , so every one would have at least one service near you could walk too or a short ride

@courtneybartley6092

7 жыл бұрын

no I go to the Old Regular bab church, we have church once a month at our church but go to other Old reg bab on the other weekends, this is so ppl can go visit their brothers and sisters in the other churches to see how they are doing and help out, so I've been told a long time ago. We still sing this way, nothing like it.

@SHalto142

3 жыл бұрын

It's possible that Lomax filmed this during a break -- during potluck? -- as was done for some of his recording of Sacred Harp singing in Alabama. If so, there would be non-singers off in the background.

The difference between the black church and this is….something

Sounds like Amish singing hymns

Good grief that fake portrait of a false jesus makes me wanna vomit! Nobody has a picture of "the Christ"

@lopez8872

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not about his features. It’s about the love and the sacrifice behind him.

@paulgoble5678

3 жыл бұрын

@@lopez8872 it's called Idolarty!