Arkansas Traveler is an alternative folk album released by American singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked in 1992.

Her fourth album for Mercury Records, the songs focused around the roots of her music.

Reviewing the album for Rolling Stone, Mark Kemp gave it four stars out of five, calling it "ambitious".

He also found it an ambitious album, calling Shocked "feisty" and "exuberant".

[2] Her desire to have the cover portray her in blackface in tribute to the roots of the music featured on the album drew criticism and led to a change in the cover art.