ARKANSAS: Decrepit Towns That Are Surprisingly Amazing - Johnny Cash's Childhood Home Visited

I don't live in the US but I do find these videos interesting. Old towns, or towns going downhill. Its haunting, when you get the history of what they once were.

Johnny's version of Hurt might be the most heart wrenching music video I've ever seen. Absolute masterpiece. Can't watch it without shedding a tear.

My family lives in the middle of the Arkansas. My parents love driving all the back roads and visiting these small towns. Every weekend. My parents find it so relaxing.

June Carter Cash passed away just a very few months before Johnny. Yes, the song Hurt makes me cry too.

I got to see Johnny Cash In concert in March 1980. Fairly small venue in Kansas City KS. About 3rd row. I have come to appreciate it more as I have gotten older. I was only 16 at the time.

I graduated from Lepanto in 83, grew up outside of Rivervale on a 600 acre farm, my mother and sister live currently in Jonesboro. Trust me that area looked a lot different in the 70's and 80's, I used to know every back road you could drive for miles back then. The whole area has really went down but when I was a kid it was a great place to live, small towns good people and relaxed. I miss that place now, rural America when I was a kid was great!

Never get tired of this channel. Thank you!

I saw Black Oak Arkansas, Lynard Skinard, and the Outlaws in the same concert in Amarillo TX. Circa 1976.

I love these videos. I always feel like I am there in the truck and Lord Spoda is talking to me personally, as if he is showing me around and that is the sign of a truly skilled vlogger. I've always been a huge Johnny Cash fan too, he's a very famous and popular musician here in the UK, I have the last album he made when he was dying and it is a beautiful yet heartbreaking set of songs because he is so obviously very near the end. Anyway, thanks for posting and please post many more.

You snuck in and made me cry halfway through. 😢 I'm gonna watch Johnny Cash "hurt" after I finish your video. I didn't know that story.. thank you 🤗

Arkansas has produced ALOT of AWESOME talent!!!!

This video was the most interesting and enjoyable to me of all videos (and I watch all that you do). Thank You Sir for the time and effort that I am sure you both put forth. People like you make YouTube so much more rewarding! ☺

This video is one I didn’t want to end! It’s so great and wonderful. I loved everything. Johnny and June were on my flight in first class. A passenger had spent quite some time in the lavatory with obvious digestion issues. I went in to wash my hands afterwards, and Johnny was waiting to go in next. To this day, I still hope he didn’t think it was I who did that in the lavatory!! Lol!! Kind, quiet and polite couple who were both dressed in all black. I was happy to see his childhood home. This trip was magical. Thank you for also filling us in on memories with your dad. That means a lot. I send my love to beautiful Nicole. I just feel so blessed to have you both in my life… vicariously of course!! But still think of you as true friends! Can’t wait to get in the car again!! Love from your biggest fan

I am also a huge NIN fan that didn't really care for Hurt. Then Johnny Cash changed one single word of that song and just like that it became his own. The first time I heard his rendition and saw the video I broke down in tears, easily, it's one of the most thought-provoking musical videos out there. I've used Cash's biography and music in my ESL classes, and it's amazing seeing my students reactions. Thanks for showing us his home and sharing a bit about him with us.

I really like your show! You are not boring like some of the other travelers. You always have info that I am interested in. And, I am from Arkansas! 👍🏼

The rural videos are always my favorite. I especially liked the Glen Campbell and Johnny Cash stories, they were so interesting.

Being old and sick does put life in a different perspective. Im 70. I was in the hospital 🏥 twice for Congestive Heart Failure back in 2020. Possessions are no longer as important as they once were, and arguments have become meaningless. Live each day as if it were your last.

I totally agree with on that song Hurt!!! Johnny Cash took it to deeper level!!

great video again....loved johnny cash part and yes i once again played the hurt video....really amazing...i remember at the time being so blown away that an old guy would do something like that....one of the best covers ever

Great content man! I watch and like every video.