About Loyal Jones
- Appalachia: A Self-Portrait (1979)
- Radio’s ‘Kentucky Mountain Boy’ Bradley Kincaid (1980, revised 1988)
- Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lundsford (1984, revised in 1988, reprinted in 2002)
- Reshaping the Image of Appalachia (1986)
- Appalachian Values with Warren Brunner (1995)
- Faith and Meaning in The Southern Uplands (1999)
- Country Music Humorists and Comedians (2008)
- My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia (2017).
- Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor (1987)
- Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule: Appalachian Mountain Humor (1989)
- The Preacher Joke Book (1989)
- Hometown Humor (1991)
- More Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor (1995).
- Music from South Turkey Creek (1976)
- Co-producer and writer of notes for Celebration! Old-Time Music at Berea (1976)
- Co-producer and writer of notes for Buell Kazee (1978)
- The Ballad Tradition (1986)
- Sheila Adams Barnhill: Loving Forward, Loving Backward (1988).
- Member and chairman, Berea Area Human Relations Committee, 1965-1970
- Board member, chairman, and treasurer, Kentucky Foothills Development Council, 1970-78
- Member, Governor’s Task Force on Education, 1975
- Member, Governor’s Task Force on Welfare Reform, 1979-80
- Member, advisory committee, An Appalachian Experience, program in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1978-80
- Member, agenda or program committees, Appalachian Studies Conference, 1980-84, 1986-89, chairman, 1989
- Member and chairman, Hindman Settlement School Board of Directors, 1978-present
- Director, annual Celebration of Traditional Music, 1973-1993
- Co-director, Festival of Appalachian Humor, 1983, 1987, 1990.
- As a Board Member for White House Clinics, Health Help, Inc. in McKee, Kentucky
- On the advisory committee for the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- As a Trustee for the Berea College Appalachian Fund
- Additionally, he is a long-time member of Union Church in Berea.
- Thomas Wolfe Award (WNC Historical Society)
- Mountain Spirit Award (Christian Appalachian Project),
- Laurel Leaves Award (Appalachian Consortium)
- President’s Medallion (Berea College)
- Appalachian Educator Award (Carson-Newman College)
- Appalachian Treasure Award (Morehead State University)
- Cratis D. Williams Appalachian Service Award (Appalachian Studies Association)
- Award of Special Merit (Berea College Alumni Association)
- Service to Appalachia and Berea College Award (Berea College Appalachian Fund)
- Outstanding Contributor to Appalachian Literature and Culture Award (Appalachian Writers Association)
- Denny Plattner Award for poetry (Appalachian Heritage)
- Special W.D. Weatherford Award (Berea College)
- Service Award (Berea College)
- Jim Wayne Miller Award (Hazard Community College)
- Culture and Arts Award (East Kentucky Leadership Foundation)
- W.D. Weatherford Award for Faith & Meaning in the Southern Uplands (Berea College)
- Willie Parker Peace History Book Award (North Carolina Society of Historians)
- an honorary doctorate in humane letters (Union College).