“Going Back to Old Virginia” is a bluegrass song that surfaced on a late-1970s recording featuring the fiddler Les Woodie, with Stan Dudley singing the lead.
The song is a homecoming number. After time and trouble away, the singer turns back toward old Virginia — the home he left behind — and the lyric carries the familiar bluegrass pull of the mountains and the wish to return to them.
The song was revived by the fiddler Michael Cleveland, who carries forward the traditional bluegrass sound.
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