Every Sunday evening at 6pm thousands of radios all over Central and eastern North Carolina are tuned to 94.7 QDR for the PineCone Bluegrass Show. Whether at home, at work or riding in their cars, some 4,000,000 listeners per year know that from the opening strains of Earl Scruggs’ “Nashville Blues,” Larry Nixon and Tim Woodall will broadcast three hours of the best in bluegrass, old and new. The program is sponsored by the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, or PineCone. For more information on the radio show visit pinecone.org.
The show was featured in an article in “Bluegrass Today” …you can read it here.
Meet Larry and Tim
Larry Nixon is from Elkin, North Carolina, near Galax, Virginia, the heart of mountain and traditional music country. When Larry was 12, his grandfather gave him a banjo, and since then Larry has been hooked on music, winning a talent show in the eighth grade. Larry has enjoyed playing all types of music but has returned to his “roots,” the re-creation and preservation of the finger-picking styles of guitar that he first heard in the 1960’s. Larry attended NC State University and is a consulting engineer in Raleigh. He was one of the original directors of PineCone.
Tim Woodall is the elder statesman of local bluegrass group The Grass Cats. Having played banjo for 30 years or so, he also has interest in many other types of music. As a studio musician, Tim has recorded pedal steel, bass, and guitar in addition to banjo. Occasionally he will step out front to sing lead if there are cue cards available, but he is more comfortable singing harmony. Another hobby since the age of 13 is radio broadcasting. He acquired his FCC License in 1967, and his first radio job came along in 1989 with the Pinecone Bluegrass Show.
Weekly Playlist
PineCone Playlist: July 13th, 2025
Artist | Song Title | Album Title | Record Label |
Seldom Scene | Rawhide | Live at the Cellar Door | Rebel |
Rhonda Vincent | Muleskinner Blues | Ragin’ Live | Rounder |
J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mt. Boys | She’s just a little cute thing | Bluegrass Holiday | |
Del McCoury | All Aboard | Celebrating 50 Years | McCoury |
Becky Buller | Jubilee | Single | |
Dave Evans | Highway 52 | Best of the Vetco Years | Vetco |
Jason Carter/Michael Cleveland | Out run the rain | Single | |
The Grass Cats | Copperhead Road | 9 Lives and More | New Time |
Larry Sparks | Rock Hearts | Lonesome and Blue | Rebel |
Alison Krauss & Union Station | Too late to cry | Too late to Cry | Rounder |
Junior Sisk | The story of the day I died | The Story of the day I died | |
Jim & Jesse | Heading West | Music among friends | Rounder |
Clyde Mattocks | Hugging the Hound | Hugging the Hound | |
Country Gentlemen | Teach your Children | 25 Years | Rebel |
New Grass Revival | This heart of mine | Fly through the country | |
Don Rigsby | These Golden Fields | Kentucky Troubadour | |
J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mt. Boys | Philadelphia Lawyer | Bluegrass holiday | |
Grascals | Feeling Blue | Keep a walkin’ | |
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | Ground Speed | Foggy Mountain Banjo | Sony |
Jimm Martin | Suny Side of the Mountain | High Lonesome | MCA |
Jimmy Martin | Goodbye Old Pal | Jimmy Martin’s Greatest BG Hits | |
Flatt & Scruggs | Petticoat Junction | On Foggy Mountain | |
Nashville Bluegrass Band | Blackbirds and crows | Unleashed | Sugar Hill |
Nashville Bluegrass Band | Blue Train | Choice Picks | |
The Tennessee Bluegrass Band | Red dirt white hose Blueridge Home | Single | |
The Tennessee Bluegrass Band | Nolichucky | Nolichucky | |
Larry Sparks | Moma’s apron 3trings | It’s just me | Rebel |
Larry Sparks | I’d like to be a train | Best of Larry Sparks | Rebel |
Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion | Always marry an ugly girl | Instrumentals & Insanities | |
Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion | Lonesome without you | Live | |
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | On and On | The Original Band | Sugar Hill |
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Love on arrival | Drive Time | |
IIIrd Tyme Out | Why did you wander | Back to the Mac | |
IIIrd Tyme Out | Till the end | Live at the Mac | Rounder |
Bill Keith | Sugarfoot Rag | Something Auld…. | |
Bill Monroe | Uncle Pen | Bean Blossom | MCA |
J.D. Crowe & the New South | Old home place | J.D. Crowe & the New South | Rounder |
Billy Strings | Seven weeks in county | Single | |
Blue Highway | Wicked Pathway of Sin | Blue Highway | |
Darin & Brooke Aldridge | The Price & Pay | Single | |
The Osborne Brothers | Fastest Grass Alive | Once More | Sugar Hill |
Seldom Scene | Rider | The Best of the Seldom Scene | |
Nixon, Blevens & Gage | Windy & Warm | Pickin’ on Doc | Clover |
Lonesome River Band | Hey Day | Single | |
Hammertowne | That’s what Kentucky means to me | Single | |
Tony Rice | Girl from the North Country | Plays and sings Bluegrass | |
The Bluegrass Band | Wreck of the Old 97 | Once again from the top | |
Ricky Skaggs | Road to Spencer | History of the Future | Skaggs |
Molly Tuttle | Side Saddle | Crooked Tree | |
Terry Baucom /Jon Randall | You live in a world all your own | Never thought of looking back | |
Kody Norris Show | The Auctioneer | Highfalutin’ Hillbilly |