“Georgia Piney Woods” is a homesick country song written by the celebrated Nashville songwriting team of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, the husband-and-wife pair behind a long string of country and bluegrass standards, among them “Rocky Top.”
The song was introduced by the Osborne Brothers, the Ohio-based bluegrass act known for their smooth, modern harmony sound and their willingness to fold steel guitar, drums, and pop-leaning arrangements into bluegrass. They recorded “Georgia Piney Woods” around 1970 and released it on an album the following year. Its lyric voices a longing to leave the city behind and return to the pine country of Georgia — a clean expression of the back-home theme that runs through so much of the Bryants’ writing.
The Osborne Brothers’ association with Boudleaux and Felice Bryant ran deep enough that they later devoted an entire album to the couple’s songs. “Georgia Piney Woods” remains one of the better-known products of that partnership and a staple of the smoother, harmony-rich strain of bluegrass.
