Primitive Baptist singing traditions in the South.
This collection of essays, best described as an extended set of liner notes to its accompanying compact disc, frames its topic with deceptive modesty. Benjamin Lloyd (1804 60) was a Primitive Baptist preacher, who in 1841 published some 535 hymn texts under the title "Primitive Hymns." "Lloyd s Hymnal" (as it is often called now) has been a small but consistent seller ever since, finding wide use among Primitive Baptists throughout the South. The CD as well as the book] appropriately uses" Lloyd s" as a point of reference from which...