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.
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.
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.
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.
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 UA-cam so much more rewarding! ☺
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.
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 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!
I lived in West Ridge where my parents were school teachers until I was almost 13 then we moved to Caraway. My dad was the high school agri/sop teacher and my mom taught elementary. I graduated from Riverside in 1986. I totally get what you mean about the small towns in the are being great to grow up in. I wouldn't trade my background growing up in that area for anything. I learned how to work and work hard. Any time we "went to town" we went to Lepanto or Osceola or sometimes to Indian Mall and Walmart in Jonesboro. I grew up working on farms, hunting in Hatchiecoon and fishing the Saint Francis or at Rivervale. My grandparents lived on a small farm just below the county line ditch just north of Rivervale. We also walked the ditches around Rabbit Ridge and the Little River and the ditches to the west of Dyess rabbit hunting. Lot's of swamp rabbits back then around this little old, abandoned house to the west of Dyess that we hunted the ditches around. If someone would have told me then that it was the childhood home of Johnny Cash I would have laughed at them. I'm in Jonesboro now and I just hate to see how the small towns there have just dried up. I have lots of good memories of cruising the streets and hanging out with my buddies sitting on tail gates on Friday and Saturday nights, going to school and church with all of the people I knew. And, yes, I have known several people who grew up with Johnny Cash and his family. I'm so glad I'm not the only one from the Lepanto area to find this man's video posts.
@@mattphillips2808I went to 5th-6th grade in the late 60’s and back for ASU in the mid-late 70’s. Was just in the Bootheel after more than 40 years for a funeral and my heart was broken. I flew in and out same day but what I saw…the images make me sick to my stomach. I’ll never forget seeing that. What happened Matt? Has Jonesboro suffered like that?😔
@Skyking6976 I'm not Matt, but I can assure you that Jonesboro is one of the few places that time has been kind to, as its population has steadily grown, due to the leaders of business and industry having what I consider foresight. I grew up in Marked Tree, then lived in West Memphis for 40 years. When I moved there in the early 70's, Jonesboro and West Memphis both had a population of about thirty thousand. Today, Jonesboro has passed the eighty thousand mark, and West Memphis is still around thirty thousand residents and is trash ridden and a high poverty-stricken and crime infested area that you wouldn't want to live in. Jonesboro, on the opposite end of the spectrum, is progressive and pretty much a good place to live. It's amazing to me how 2 cities can go in opposite directions like those 2 have. It all comes down to the foresight of the community leaders, and how they look to help grow their community, as opposed to enriching themselves and not giving a damn about their neighbors. Most of the smaller towns in NEA are dying, if not already dead.
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! 👍🏼
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.
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
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip glen campbell last album as well....nothing like a dying artist....and i mean artist...i know i saw glen campbell in fountain theatre, new zealand when i was 15....i snuck in backstage....he was lovely...i often feel for these guys who were amazing but had to make albums for the studio....and when they are dying and old and long gone their true soul comes out.....amazing
My father was born in Lepanto, Ark, in 1923. Watching this has given me a birds eye view back in time. I invision my grandparents and even my great grandparents work in the fields. I looked for some sign of my father and his siblings playing and running around downtown. I wish i had been able to visit the city when he was still alive. His stories were always so lively and full of color. He had a way of putting you smack dabb back in time. I can smell my grandmother, Rachel, cooking up a storm. It was there that she passed away in 1943. Hopefully, oneday my family can come there for a visit. I would love to gather up some soil for my journey back in history to my African home. Thank you so much for taking me home.
Another great video !! These rural towns are always so interesting, and their history is fascinating. Your videos are always so informative, but in a very relaxed way, which makes them so enjoyable. Thanks so much.😊
Lord Spoda ; Thanks for sharing this most recent upload. I knew a family that moved to Jonesboro AR in the mid 1970's. I never heard from them again. When you showed Johnny Cash' boyhood home, I could visualize crops growing around the Homestead. His version of Hurt is without a doubt the best version out there. Again, thanks for sharing this video Stan in Idaho
It's crazy seeing someone tour the small towns we drive through every day. I grew up in and currently live in a tiny town about 15 miles from Lepanto named Payneway. I drive through Lepanto and past Dyess every day on my way to work at the steel mill in Osceola.
Morning! Just escaped from Wacko, Texas! ...Dyess: 40 acres and a mule! Saw Johnny Cash's boyhood home (and the closed Cash Museum) in his stunning last (and greatest) video "Hurt". No dry eyes after watching if you're human! Trent of NIN heard Johnnie's version and said that's Johnnie's song now! Thank you so much for giving us other views of his boyhood homestead! 💔❤🩹❤...Lepanto: Near-desolate downtown. ...I love Black Oak Arkansas - have some of their many albums - saw them live in concert back in the daze! Love their song, "The Big One's Still Coming"! ...Oh, and Riverdale - indeed a tiny town and the river is quite high now. A hoarder's paradise too! ... Jonesboro seems somewhat "normal. You really out-did yourself this time!
@@HaveKayaksWillTravel Johnny's version always brings me to tears. NIN version for me did nothing. Waco did make me feel weird though - cannot pin a reason for that. Maybe the B.D. episode...
@@billstill1794 My father was a heroin addict so the NIN version made sense to me at a young age. Waco was one of those city's I didn't think I would do. It will either do well or it will flop. I tried something new in it with the tower camera.
April 23, 1974 Montrose with Sammy Hagar, REO Speedwagon, and headliners, Black Oak Arkansas with Jim Dandy Mangrum absolutely tore up the Brown County Veterans Arena in Green Bay, WI. I was hooked. Bought all their 8 tracks. The preface to their song Hot Rod is a classic for all time: "Mama, I got a hot rod, and I ain't talkin' about no car neither!" LOL
"...if I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way..." ❤ I love this song an the story behind. I purchased a black guitar and tried to learn to play, just wanted to play this song for my grandchild. Sadly I'm not talented to play guitar anyway. Thanks for telling the story to this song.
Henry - I have a theory that if you can touch type than you play a guitar. Me I am a 4 finger typer, brought two guitars (one over $1000) on the 2nd occasion and still cannot play guitar. Gave both away to young teenagers. The only think I pick now is my nose and pluck the hairs off my growing ears as I get older. Should have got personal lessons.
You can do it! Don’t give up. After crushing both hands my doctor said I’d never be able to do things like playing guitar. I went to the pawn shop as soon as my casts came off and bought an acoustic figuring it would be as good of therapy as any. A few years later I make most of my spending money playing at bars and coffee shops. Never say never my friend! Nothing is impossible when you put your mind to it.
This was my backyard growing up. My dad was born in Caraway Arkansas and my mom was born in Black Oak Arkansas. I too, was born in Caraway Arkansas in 1961. Left in 1982 for a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force. Thanks for the ride.
I paused the video at the sign for the Jonny cash boyhood home and it looks like you start at the town visitor center then go to the house. Just for people who want to go in future. Great video as always!
We farm a lot of land around Dyess, as well as elsewhere around the region. In your first opening shot, that big field on the right is one of ours. I always thought Dyess was kind of creepy for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on.
"Been on a million gravel roads, carryin' a heavy load." Gravel Roads by the best live concert band ever, the incredible Black Oak Arkansas. Their live album, Raunch and Roll is a must listen. Thanks for recognizing them.
Viewing for the first time the outside of the boyhood home of Johnny Cash, set against a wide backdrop of undeveloped flatland in every direction, reinforced my affection and respect for the man. Its surroundings were likely much the same as it is now when he lived there. Also enjoyed seeing the town in which the rightfully celebrated author, John Grisham was born. So far, through you, I rather like what I see of Arkansas. See you in Missouri.
Thank you !! I am in Australia. I watch for the Bronco - to come pick me up and take me on interesting rides !!! Love your work !. ?John Grisham?- yes, a fan. Cheers !.
Hi, I'm from Australia and I've been watching these since mid last year, it surprises me the amount of decay in so many areas of southern America, in this video though I loved the document on Johnny Cash (My fav song of his is Burning Ring of fire), and also the story about The Painted House
Lots of those little delta towns in Arkansas had shirt, shoes, and jeans factories along with furniture and appliance plants until the meager wages they paid weren't low enough for Wall Street and they were shipped south or overseas
OK…..I am a professional Classical trained musician and have been most of my life. You’ve hit the nail on the head!!! YES!!! Cash took that song and made it different in his interpretation. That’s the sign of a true artist. How adroit of you to notice this!!! Well done!!!!! I’m not a country music fan, but naturally, I recognize Cash as a real musician of the highest calibre. And that you recognize his take on “Hurt”….well…someone in your past did a very good job in your music education. I’m very impressed.
I KNEW you were gonna say Hurt! Love Johnny's version of it!!! Love NIN too, but Johnny's version brings me to tears it's so beautiful and excellent. Really cool you've shared this with your viewers/subscribers. Thank you 💜
The Little River is definitely overflowing. We’ve had a ton of rain the past couple months here in Arkansas. Thank you for sharing Johnny Cash’s Boyhood Home. I’ve never been there and always wanted to make the trip but it’s a shame you didn’t get to go in and tour it. Safe travels!
My youngest son's middle name is Cash. We always loved Johnny Cash. Thanks for the video Joey, it was a good one. You are about to spike the "Hurt" video views. 😃
Jonesboro downtown use to go to the railroad yard. Had a gas leak and when it exploded took out a lot of buildings. Also you should head down us 63 . There's a lot of small town all the way to Missouri.
Johnny Cash Hurt... greatest music video ever made. Searing in it's honesty in what life is really about. Although many in the UK are not great country music fan but most love Johnny Cash. Like all the greats he transcends musical genre
I was stationed in Blytheville Arkansas in the 70s, when the Air Force Base was still active. That would have been the time that it was at its biggest population. By the 80's it was on its way to being closed down, so the local economy took a huge hit. I was there from 76-78. I had a motorcycle at that time so I would blast through the backroads, rolling through little towns. I went through places like Black Oak, Osceola, Jonesboro, and took the Interstate 55 to Memphis. Looks like it has lost nearly 10K population since the 70s. This happens in all of these towns, far from larger cities where the jobs are, where the schools are, where shopping for food and goods are not an hour away at a Walmart, where entertainment, restaurants and good doctors clinics/hospitals are located. Small towns are where old people die and young people leave. It's OK to look for a small town life but I know that none of those people, are looking to live in small towns like the ones you're going traveling through.
I lived in Blytheville, Arkansas from 76 to 2009 and Northeast Arkansas will always be home to me. Been to Dyess and Jonesboro, or as we called it JB, many times.
So interesting for someone like me who can never visit these small towns but has a big interest. Thanks man!. Love the channel. Think you relly nailed it with a great balance of visuals, information by the research you do.. really happy you do this.
Hello I live in Northeast Arkansas in the town of Brookland Arkansas not to far from Jonesboro great video I hope you will put more vids of Northeast Arkansas. Have a great day.
Very interesting your videos showing the towns of the U.S. I am surprised to see so many abandoned and poor towns. Maybe my country is a little poorer but I have never seen so many abandoned towns. There are some in that conditions in the area where I live because the train no longer passes through those places and people leave, I also believe that the modernization of agriculture is one of the main causes, so many people are no longer needed to work.
There are a combination of factors that lead to these towns ,in particular, dying. Agriculture consolidation, resource extraction, government decisions. Along the Little River and St Francis River the lumber industry was at least as big as agriculture. The Marked Tree pumps drained the area in the 30's and allowed a more rapid extraction of the timber and larger farms . This allowed factories like the Singer sewing machine factory in Trumann, and a rail line through Jonesboro, Lake City( just opposite Black Oak on the St Francis) and Manila further north on the Little River . When the wood was gone everything slowly died, and larger farms bought up the land. The small ports in Lake City and Lester died after an earthquake shifted the St Francis and the Government decided not to invest in the river channel despite building locks in Marked Tree and a draw bridge in Lake City to keep the river navigable..... I could go on.
Just passin' thru. First memory of Johnny Cash was the early morning radio program my father listened to - "Ring of Fire", my last - "Hurt", lifetime in between. While I agree that folks are litterly dis-respectful, it is possible that what you saw was flotsam from the flooding. Stay safe and off the interstates.
That is the good life. My daddy grew up in MS on a cotton farm. My husband in LA farming corn and soybean. I grew up in AR at the edge of town, it was considered country back then. Keep up the great work.
I grew up in a cowboy town in Nebraska called Burwell we have a huge outdoor rodeo and country western music was pretty much all that was heard .... And Johnny Cash was on the list of who we listened to the most...
Thank you Mr Spoda if not for you I would not see these sites! The videos are so enjoyable. I too loved Johnny Cash and John Grisham. Matter of fact I just saw The Painted House last week on tv. How exciting it was when you got to that part of the video! Thank you for your videos sir. There are a lot of us house bound folks that love your videos it’s a road trip for us too! Hope you can keep them coming! God Bless you, your family and your travels. Stay safe out there! It’s not the old world we grew up in! 🛐
Another great video Lord. I enjoy travel videos. Keep going (no pun intended) . I'd like to see any small radio stations you find in your travels. usually a sign of same is a tall aerial and one or more satelitte dishes. Greetings from Australia.
That's cool on black oak. When I was growing up they lived over here in Oakland Arkansas they had a resort kinda or a fenced in place, where They hung out at. Jim dandy was the song 🎵 I always listened to.
Also I don't know how old you are but I am 51 almost 52. My mom is about to be 82. She grew up in poverty. The 2nd of eight. My grandfather was a Marine in WWII. They had a 2 bedroom house. One room was my grandparents room. The other was the girls room they shared with their grandmother. The 5 boys slept on the front porch. Some days they didn't know if they would have food. I still cry for them sometimes when I think about that too hard. This is why we should always be kind to everyone!
Lord Spoda, Dyess, what an amazing history it has in its 90 years. 40 acres and a mule takes me back to Oscar Brown in the early 70's. There certainly is a lot of poverty in the town that probably has never escaped the original "Deal". Johnny Cash, I have heard of him of course and know some of his songs but never knew where he came from. That's the thing about artists, you never really know what drives them. Lepanto, love the name, sounds a bit squash-buckling. "I think I can just park here" ... The street is packed to the rafters so chance your arm. There must be some English bastard humour in your bloodline .... Tuesday and a bloody freezing 17 degrees, and looks a bit deserted. John Grisham - King Of The Torts, what a superb book but never seen any of the films as I fall asleep watching them. River Vale, you missed the weir, it looks like the biggest thing in the hamlet. All of these little towns have a sense of pride of something that they have achieved like Black Oak. Jonesboro , nice artwork! Rather chic in places and love the way the town just stops. Thank you for the front seat trip as I sit here in 33 degrees and a fan blasting away at full throttle. As always, be safe
Mate you have done it again,yesterday was glen campbell and today johnny cash how wonderful is that. I can't wait to see your next video you are with full of suprises. Thank you digger,digger is an Australian thing older generation of aussies used to say to each other good day digger.
Wow that's such a cute building the old theater and I like video s of all the interesting and historic places that you go visit and yeah old houses are my favorite as I bought a fixer upper that was built in 1937 and I've been living in it for almost 50 years now ,,we don't need to keep up or compete with the Joneses or anyone else be content with what you have ,,
Thanks for sharing & for talking about BOA.. I was friends with an original member of the band that was from Monette.. He passed onward awhile back,, miss my bro a lot.. I live in southcentral Arkansas & the litter is bad here too.. The trash of Trash.. Once again,, thank you for sharing your great videos..
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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.
For me, the really haunting ones are where all the mining took place and then poisoned the local population and now no one lives there.
The U.S. has countless such towns.
I am Canadian and I love watching this channel too.
@@kbanghart You mean towns like Picher Oklahoma and Centralia Pennsylvania ?
@@paradoxstudios6639 yes, there's two good examples. I thought I had replied to the other person but maybe my reply didn't come through.
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.
I saw Black Oak Arkansas, Lynard Skinard, and the Outlaws in the same concert in Amarillo TX. Circa 1976.
Did you smoke a funny cigarette? lol
Wow, what a show!
Wow that must have been a great concert.
I'm friends with jim dandy from the band I live in black oak
my condolences
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.
I agree.
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.
Never get tired of this channel. Thank you!
Thanks, Olin!
I totally agree with on that song Hurt!!!
Johnny Cash took it to deeper level!!
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.
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 UA-cam so much more rewarding! ☺
You are very welcome!! :)
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June Carter Cash passed away just a very few months before Johnny. Yes, the song Hurt makes me cry too.
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.
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Wow, thank you!! 👍👍😀😀
You mean the BRONCO 😂😂
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 🤗
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
That's Awesome you got to meet Mr. Cash. We really enjoy Joey and Nicole's videos too. We hope they show us all of the U.S.
Wow, thank you, Denise!!
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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!
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I lived in West Ridge where my parents were school teachers until I was almost 13 then we moved to Caraway. My dad was the high school agri/sop teacher and my mom taught elementary. I graduated from Riverside in 1986. I totally get what you mean about the small towns in the are being great to grow up in. I wouldn't trade my background growing up in that area for anything. I learned how to work and work hard. Any time we "went to town" we went to Lepanto or Osceola or sometimes to Indian Mall and Walmart in Jonesboro. I grew up working on farms, hunting in Hatchiecoon and fishing the Saint Francis or at Rivervale. My grandparents lived on a small farm just below the county line ditch just north of Rivervale. We also walked the ditches around Rabbit Ridge and the Little River and the ditches to the west of Dyess rabbit hunting. Lot's of swamp rabbits back then around this little old, abandoned house to the west of Dyess that we hunted the ditches around. If someone would have told me then that it was the childhood home of Johnny Cash I would have laughed at them. I'm in Jonesboro now and I just hate to see how the small towns there have just dried up. I have lots of good memories of cruising the streets and hanging out with my buddies sitting on tail gates on Friday and Saturday nights, going to school and church with all of the people I knew. And, yes, I have known several people who grew up with Johnny Cash and his family. I'm so glad I'm not the only one from the Lepanto area to find this man's video posts.
Born and raised in Jonesboro! Still living there
@@mattphillips2808I went to 5th-6th grade in the late 60’s and back for ASU in the mid-late 70’s. Was just in the Bootheel after more than 40 years for a funeral and my heart was broken. I flew in and out same day but what I saw…the images make me sick to my stomach. I’ll never forget seeing that. What happened Matt? Has Jonesboro suffered like that?😔
@Skyking6976 I'm not Matt, but I can assure you that Jonesboro is one of the few places that time has been kind to, as its population has steadily grown, due to the leaders of business and industry having what I consider foresight. I grew up in Marked Tree, then lived in West Memphis for 40 years. When I moved there in the early 70's, Jonesboro and West Memphis both had a population of about thirty thousand. Today, Jonesboro has passed the eighty thousand mark, and West Memphis is still around thirty thousand residents and is trash ridden and a high poverty-stricken and crime infested area that you wouldn't want to live in.
Jonesboro, on the opposite end of the spectrum, is progressive and pretty much a good place to live. It's amazing to me how 2 cities can go in opposite directions like those 2 have. It all comes down to the foresight of the community leaders, and how they look to help grow their community, as opposed to enriching themselves and not giving a damn about their neighbors.
Most of the smaller towns in NEA are dying, if not already dead.
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! 👍🏼
Awesome, thank you!
Arkansas has produced ALOT of AWESOME talent!!!!
Agreed.
Missouri as well...
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 agree with every word you said. :)
The rural videos are always my favorite. I especially liked the Glen Campbell and Johnny Cash stories, they were so interesting.
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
I agree!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip glen campbell last album as well....nothing like a dying artist....and i mean artist...i know i saw glen campbell in fountain theatre, new zealand when i was 15....i snuck in backstage....he was lovely...i often feel for these guys who were amazing but had to make albums for the studio....and when they are dying and old and long gone their true soul comes out.....amazing
My father was born in Lepanto, Ark, in 1923.
Watching this has given me a birds eye view back in time.
I invision my grandparents and even my great grandparents work in the fields. I looked for some sign of my father and his siblings playing and running around downtown.
I wish i had been able to visit the city when he was still alive. His stories were always so lively and full of color. He had a way of putting you smack dabb back in time.
I can smell my grandmother, Rachel, cooking up a storm. It was there that she passed away in 1943.
Hopefully, oneday my family can come there for a visit. I would love to gather up some soil for my journey back in history to my African home.
Thank you so much for taking me home.
Another great video !! These rural towns are always so interesting, and their history is fascinating. Your videos are always so informative, but in a very relaxed way, which makes them so enjoyable. Thanks so much.😊
Thanks, CL!
Another great video LS thank you. Johnny Cash’s cover of Personal Jesus is a classic, absolutely love it.
Yes, I agree.
Lord Spoda ; Thanks for sharing this most recent upload. I knew a family that moved to Jonesboro AR in the mid 1970's. I never heard from them again.
When you showed Johnny Cash' boyhood home, I could visualize crops growing around the Homestead. His version of Hurt is without a doubt the best version out there.
Again, thanks for sharing this video
Stan in Idaho
Great content man! I watch and like every video.
Awesome! Thank you! :)
So true. Much more rich than Street View & Google earth. Love the perspective and easy to digest facts.
It's crazy seeing someone tour the small towns we drive through every day. I grew up in and currently live in a tiny town about 15 miles from Lepanto named Payneway. I drive through Lepanto and past Dyess every day on my way to work at the steel mill in Osceola.
Awesome. You are creating one of the greatest documentaries of all time. It is definitely not the America shown by Hollywood or on TV. Keep it coming.
Wow, thank you!
I remember reading The Painted House and the impression it left on me! Thanks for showing it. And I loved Johnny Cash! Yay!! a kitty cat! Thanks
Morning! Just escaped from Wacko, Texas! ...Dyess: 40 acres and a mule! Saw Johnny Cash's boyhood home (and the closed Cash Museum) in his stunning last (and greatest) video "Hurt". No dry eyes after watching if you're human! Trent of NIN heard Johnnie's version and said that's Johnnie's song now! Thank you so much for giving us other views of his boyhood homestead! 💔❤🩹❤...Lepanto: Near-desolate downtown. ...I love Black Oak Arkansas - have some of their many albums - saw them live in concert back in the daze! Love their song, "The Big One's Still Coming"! ...Oh, and Riverdale - indeed a tiny town and the river is quite high now. A hoarder's paradise too! ... Jonesboro seems somewhat "normal. You really out-did yourself this time!
The great escape. Lol . 😆 I grew up loving the NIN version but Johnny knocked it out of the park.
@@HaveKayaksWillTravel Johnny's version always brings me to tears. NIN version for me did nothing. Waco did make me feel weird though - cannot pin a reason for that. Maybe the B.D. episode...
@@billstill1794 My father was a heroin addict so the NIN version made sense to me at a young age. Waco was one of those city's I didn't think I would do. It will either do well or it will flop. I tried something new in it with the tower camera.
Wow, thank you, Bill!
April 23, 1974 Montrose with Sammy Hagar, REO Speedwagon, and headliners, Black Oak Arkansas with Jim Dandy Mangrum absolutely tore up the Brown County Veterans Arena in Green Bay, WI. I was hooked. Bought all their 8 tracks. The preface to their song Hot Rod is a classic for all time: "Mama, I got a hot rod, and I ain't talkin' about no car neither!" LOL
I’m from Lepanto Arkansas just down the road it’s so neet to see this Thanks for this
Awesome video as usual. Really enjoyed it 👍👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
Hi Lord Spoda
Thanks for the video. From rural towns to the last city in video a noticable change. A white flowing tree @2:55 is attention catching.
"...if I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way..." ❤ I love this song an the story behind. I purchased a black guitar and tried to learn to play, just wanted to play this song for my grandchild. Sadly I'm not talented to play guitar anyway. Thanks for telling the story to this song.
Thanks, Henry. Great comment.
Henry - I have a theory that if you can touch type than you play a guitar. Me I am a 4 finger typer, brought two guitars (one over $1000) on the 2nd occasion and still cannot play guitar. Gave both away to young teenagers. The only think I pick now is my nose and pluck the hairs off my growing ears as I get older. Should have got personal lessons.
You can do it! Don’t give up. After crushing both hands my doctor said I’d never be able to do things like playing guitar. I went to the pawn shop as soon as my casts came off and bought an acoustic figuring it would be as good of therapy as any. A few years later I make most of my spending money playing at bars and coffee shops. Never say never my friend! Nothing is impossible when you put your mind to it.
@@Axeman428 Thank you buddy, in the last weeks i'm really thinking about trying it one more time. Thanks, god bless you
This was my backyard growing up. My dad was born in Caraway Arkansas and my mom was born in Black Oak Arkansas. I too, was born in Caraway Arkansas in 1961. Left in 1982 for a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force. Thanks for the ride.
My Mom was born in Caraway....I was born in 1960 on Mississippi Coast
I paused the video at the sign for the Jonny cash boyhood home and it looks like you start at the town visitor center then go to the house. Just for people who want to go in future. Great video as always!
Thats correct. His house is a few miles away.
We farm a lot of land around Dyess, as well as elsewhere around the region. In your first opening shot, that big field on the right is one of ours. I always thought Dyess was kind of creepy for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on.
Love being able to see rural USA from Australia, watched Johny Cash Hurt after this ! Thanks for telling us about it .
It’s an awesome video. You’ll feel how he feels as you watch it. 😀
"Been on a million gravel roads, carryin' a heavy load." Gravel Roads by the best live concert band ever, the incredible Black Oak Arkansas. Their live album, Raunch and Roll is a must listen. Thanks for recognizing them.
Absolutely. My Dad played the 8 tracks in the truck when I was a kid! Never forgot. :)
I was excited to visit their namesake town.
Viewing for the first time the outside of the boyhood home of Johnny Cash, set against a wide backdrop of undeveloped flatland in every direction, reinforced my affection and respect for the man. Its surroundings were likely much the same as it is now when he lived there. Also enjoyed seeing the town in which the rightfully celebrated author, John Grisham was born. So far, through you, I rather like what I see of Arkansas. See you in Missouri.
Arkansas has the best blend of beauty and eccentricity in the US. It's amazing.
Thank you !! I am in Australia. I watch for the Bronco - to come pick me up and take me on interesting rides !!! Love your work !. ?John Grisham?- yes, a fan. Cheers !.
Awesome, thank you!
Great Video. I can tell that you enjoy making them as much or more than all your viewers love watching them. Am I right?
Pretty much! :)
Appreciate you for visiting our natural state!
Hi, I'm from Australia and I've been watching these since mid last year, it surprises me the amount of decay in so many areas of southern America, in this video though I loved the document on Johnny Cash (My fav song of his is Burning Ring of fire), and also the story about The Painted House
Lots of those little delta towns in Arkansas had shirt, shoes, and jeans factories along with furniture and appliance plants until the meager wages they paid weren't low enough for Wall Street and they were shipped south or overseas
I watched Johnny Cash‘s video hurt on UA-cam because of your video never seen it before but wanna thank you very much.
Excellent!
OK…..I am a professional Classical trained musician and have been most of my life. You’ve hit the nail on the head!!! YES!!! Cash took that song and made it different in his interpretation. That’s the sign of a true artist. How adroit of you to notice this!!! Well done!!!!! I’m not a country music fan, but naturally, I recognize Cash as a real musician of the highest calibre. And that you recognize his take on “Hurt”….well…someone in your past did a very good job in your music education. I’m very impressed.
Wow, thank you, Lyle!
Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed your insight into Johnny Cash's version of Hurt.
great video- please keep doing what your doing- I travel through you- thanks!
Thank you! Will do!
There is so much music from that area. That is really cool.
It really is.
This Video Was Everything Thanks For Taking Us Along Soo Amazing
Thank you, Delois!!
Years ago I saw him & June in concert here in Anchorage Alaska the place was sold out great show...
Great song, Tennessee flat top box! Love it!
Good Lord, loving this! Glenn Campbell yesterday and Johnny Cash today! So fun to ride along - Thank you! 😊
I love these videos keep bringing them.
Absolutely, Judy. :)
Excellent coverage of Johnny Cash thank you.
I KNEW you were gonna say Hurt! Love Johnny's version of it!!! Love NIN too, but Johnny's version brings me to tears it's so beautiful and excellent. Really cool you've shared this with your viewers/subscribers. Thank you 💜
Thanks, Jennifer!!
The Little River is definitely overflowing. We’ve had a ton of rain the past couple months here in Arkansas. Thank you for sharing Johnny Cash’s Boyhood Home. I’ve never been there and always wanted to make the trip but it’s a shame you didn’t get to go in and tour it. Safe travels!
Very interesting video with info I hadn’t heard. Enjoyed - thank you
Thanks, Elena!
My youngest son's middle name is Cash. We always loved Johnny Cash. Thanks for the video Joey, it was a good one. You are about to spike the "Hurt" video views. 😃
Thats cool!
That's awesome you like NIN! Loved them when I was in college. Johnny Cash's cover of it was incredible!!
thank you so much Joe and Nic for your informative Video ' Mr cash one of my beloved country singer May his soul rest in peace
Haven't seen the movie but I loved the book. Love all of John grisham books
I do as well.
Saw NiN recently at 2022 Riotfest, Chicago. Danzig, who wrote the song Thirteen for Cash also performed with his band The Misfits.
Love the interesting videos and lawn ornaments! I will definitely check out hurt by Johnny Cash!!
Jonesboro downtown use to go to the railroad yard. Had a gas leak and when it exploded took out a lot of buildings. Also you should head down us 63 . There's a lot of small town all the way to Missouri.
Johnny Cash Hurt... greatest music video ever made. Searing in it's honesty in what life is really about. Although many in the UK are not great country music fan but most love Johnny Cash. Like all the greats he transcends musical genre
Just listened to the Hurt song. You are right- great song! Love Johnny Cash!
Awesome!
Good video and information always. Thank you.
I was stationed in Blytheville Arkansas in the 70s, when the Air Force Base was still active. That would have been the time that it was at its biggest population. By the 80's it was on its way to being closed down, so the local economy took a huge hit. I was there from 76-78. I had a motorcycle at that time so I would blast through the backroads, rolling through little towns. I went through places like Black Oak, Osceola, Jonesboro, and took the Interstate 55 to Memphis.
Looks like it has lost nearly 10K population since the 70s. This happens in all of these towns, far from larger cities where the jobs are, where the schools are, where shopping for food and goods are not an hour away at a Walmart, where entertainment, restaurants and good doctors clinics/hospitals are located. Small towns are where old people die and young people leave. It's OK to look for a small town life but I know that none of those people, are looking to live in small towns like the ones you're going traveling through.
Nice video. I agree about Hurt, that video is awesome and that song was his for sure.
I lived in Blytheville, Arkansas from 76 to 2009 and Northeast Arkansas will always be home to me. Been to Dyess and Jonesboro, or as we called it JB, many times.
See the USA via Lord Spoda! Complete with history lessons! I do enjoy your videos!😊 especially since these are places I would never visit myself.
So interesting for someone like me who can never visit these small towns but has a big interest. Thanks man!. Love the channel. Think you relly nailed it with a great balance of visuals, information by the research you do.. really happy you do this.
Thank you!
Hello I live in Northeast Arkansas in the town of Brookland Arkansas not to far from Jonesboro great video I hope you will put more vids of Northeast Arkansas. Have a great day.
You are so right! That Johnny Cash video is very moving. You have excellent taste in music, Sir!
Very interesting your videos showing the towns of the U.S. I am surprised to see so many abandoned and poor towns. Maybe my country is a little poorer but I have never seen so many abandoned towns. There are some in that conditions in the area where I live because the train no longer passes through those places and people leave, I also believe that the modernization of agriculture is one of the main causes, so many people are no longer needed to work.
There are a combination of factors that lead to these towns ,in particular, dying. Agriculture consolidation, resource extraction, government decisions. Along the Little River and St Francis River the lumber industry was at least as big as agriculture. The Marked Tree pumps drained the area in the 30's and allowed a more rapid extraction of the timber and larger farms . This allowed factories like the Singer sewing machine factory in Trumann, and a rail line through Jonesboro, Lake City( just opposite Black Oak on the St Francis) and Manila further north on the Little River . When the wood was gone everything slowly died, and larger farms bought up the land. The small ports in Lake City and Lester died after an earthquake shifted the St Francis and the Government decided not to invest in the river channel despite building locks in Marked Tree and a draw bridge in Lake City to keep the river navigable..... I could go on.
Johnny Lived that song 😢
I went to hear the song, brought tears to my eyes. Was the first time I heard it.
Just passin' thru. First memory of Johnny Cash was the early morning radio program my father listened to - "Ring of Fire", my last - "Hurt", lifetime in between. While I agree that folks are litterly dis-respectful, it is possible that what you saw was flotsam from the flooding. Stay safe and off the interstates.
All of you pray for this town many others that are thru our nation. 😢😢😢
That is the good life. My daddy grew up in MS on a cotton farm. My husband in LA farming corn and soybean. I grew up in AR at the edge of town, it was considered country back then. Keep up the great work.
Sounds great!!
Enjoy your videos. The Mrs.& I watched "Hurt:. It was moving. Johnny R I P.
I grew up in a cowboy town in Nebraska called Burwell we have a huge outdoor rodeo and country western music was pretty much all that was heard .... And Johnny Cash was on the list of who we listened to the most...
Very good video. Thank you.
Appreciate the story about the Johnny Cash song
Ahaha... I went to watch the hurt video and came back to finish yours & cracked up when you said "finish watching my video 1st"😂😂
Thank you Mr Spoda if not for you I would not see these sites! The videos are so enjoyable. I too loved Johnny Cash and John Grisham. Matter of fact I just saw The Painted House last week on tv. How exciting it was when you got to that part of the video! Thank you for your videos sir. There are a lot of us house bound folks that love your videos it’s a road trip for us too! Hope you can keep them coming! God Bless you, your family and your travels. Stay safe out there! It’s not the old world we grew up in! 🛐
Several people have tried to copy your show but they just don't have the feel for it like you do a very good show thank you
Oh, I missed this one. Sorry. Thank you for all of your videos.
Another great video Lord. I enjoy travel videos. Keep going (no pun intended) . I'd like to see any small radio stations you find in your travels. usually a sign of same is a tall aerial and one or more satelitte dishes. Greetings from Australia.
I'll do my best.
That's cool on black oak. When I was growing up they lived over here in Oakland Arkansas they had a resort kinda or a fenced in place, where They hung out at. Jim dandy was the song 🎵 I always listened to.
thanks for showing love to us at black oak
Also I don't know how old you are but I am 51 almost 52. My mom is about to be 82. She grew up in poverty. The 2nd of eight. My grandfather was a Marine in WWII. They had a 2 bedroom house. One room was my grandparents room. The other was the girls room they shared with their grandmother. The 5 boys slept on the front porch. Some days they didn't know if they would have food. I still cry for them sometimes when I think about that too hard. This is why we should always be kind to everyone!
Lord Spoda,
Dyess, what an amazing history it has in its 90 years. 40 acres and a mule takes me back to Oscar Brown in the early 70's. There certainly is a lot of poverty in the town that probably has never escaped the original "Deal". Johnny Cash, I have heard of him of course and know some of his songs but never knew where he came from. That's the thing about artists, you never really know what drives them. Lepanto, love the name, sounds a bit squash-buckling. "I think I can just park here" ... The street is packed to the rafters so chance your arm. There must be some English bastard humour in your bloodline .... Tuesday and a bloody freezing 17 degrees, and looks a bit deserted. John Grisham - King Of The Torts, what a superb book but never seen any of the films as I fall asleep watching them. River Vale, you missed the weir, it looks like the biggest thing in the hamlet. All of these little towns have a sense of pride of something that they have achieved like Black Oak. Jonesboro , nice artwork! Rather chic in places and love the way the town just stops.
Thank you for the front seat trip as I sit here in 33 degrees and a fan blasting away at full throttle. As always, be safe
Thanks, SF. Yes, I think I do have some of that English humor - or Welsh, as I have Welsh (Great Grandfather) ancestry. Top tier comment, as usual. :)
Mate you have done it again,yesterday was glen campbell and today johnny cash how wonderful is that.
I can't wait to see your next video you are with full of suprises.
Thank you digger,digger is an Australian thing older generation of aussies used to say to each other good day digger.
Great Footage ohh yeah 👍😁 it's show time 🎥 the best work ✊ on the tube ...
Esse vídeo ficou bacana demais, Obrigado thank you very much 🇧🇷.
Black Oak Arkansas...Jim Dandy to the rescue...saw them at Kansas State Fair in 1971.
I loved the Kansas State Fair!!!
Wow that's such a cute building the old theater and I like video s of all the interesting and historic places that you go visit and yeah old houses are my favorite as I bought a fixer upper that was built in 1937 and I've been living in it for almost 50 years now ,,we don't need to keep up or compete with the Joneses or anyone else be content with what you have ,,
My favorite Johnny Cash song is Man in Black, and he also was an awesome actor. I love these videos of old towns.
Thanks for sharing & for talking about BOA.. I was friends with an original member of the band that was from Monette.. He passed onward awhile back,, miss my bro a lot.. I live in southcentral Arkansas & the litter is bad here too.. The trash of Trash.. Once again,, thank you for sharing your great videos..