Arkansas Miscellany

BOOKS

MOVIES ABOUT OR FILMED IN ARKANSAS

  • Dreaming Out Loud (1940) — Lum & Abner
  • Face in the Crowd (1957) — filmed partially in Piggott
  • The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) 
  • Mud (2012) — Filmed on the Mississippi and in Dumas
  • A Painted House (2003)
  • September 30, 1955 (1977)
  • True Grit (1969)
  • True Grit (2010)
  • Walk the Line (2005) — biopic of Johnny Cash

RADIO PROGRAMS

  • King Biscuit Time (KFFA – Helena)
  • Ozark Highlands Radio (Ozark Folk Center) — Listened to the July 7, 2026 show featuring The Spooklights — bluegrass music with banjos and synthesizers. I don’t know if I could take a steady diet of their music, but this hour kept my toe tapping.
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SONGS

  • Home (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)
  • Arkansas (Chris Stapleton)
  • Arkansas Lovin’ Man (Johnny Cash)
  • Five Feet High and Rising (Johnny Cash)
  • The One on the Right is on the Left (Johnny Cash)
  • Going Back to Arkansas (Big Bill Broonzy)
  • When Electricity Came to Arkansas (Black Oak Arkansas)
  • Arkansas (Parts 1 & 2) (Jimmy McCracklin)
  • Arkansas (Glen Campbell)
  • Arkansas Farmboy (Glen Campbell)
  • The Lord God Bird (Sufjan Stevens)
  • I Can See Arkansas (Anne Murray)
  • Ozark Mountain Jubilee (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
  • Arkansas Stomp (Sleepy John Estes)
  • Arkansas Line (Dave Alvin)
  • Arkansas Toothpick
  • Arkansas Traveler
  • I’m a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas (Phil Harris)