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.
PineCone Bluegrass Show Playlist: August 30th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
Sally Ann |
Bill Monroe’s Ol’ Mandolin |
Pinecastle |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Wabash Cannonball |
On Foggy Mountain |
County |
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Dolly Parton |
Banks of the Ohio |
Blue Smoke |
Sugar Hill |
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Grascals |
Bend in the River |
Single |
Billly Blue |
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Dolly Parton |
I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open |
The Grass is Blue |
Sugar Hill |
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Red Camel Collective |
Finding Your Way Home |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Dolly Parton |
Train, Train |
The Grass is Blue |
Sugar Hill |
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Trey Hensley |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Dolly Parton |
A Few Old Memories |
The Grass is Blue |
Sugar Hill |
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Danny Paisley |
Bluegrass State of Mind |
(same) |
Mountain Home |
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Dolly Parton |
Rocky Top |
Live and Well |
|
|
Lonesome River Band |
Square Dance Friday Night |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Dolly Parton |
Traveling Prayer |
The Grass is Blue |
Sugar Hill |
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Shawn Camp |
Sis Draper |
Ghost of Sis Draper |
Skeeter Bit |
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Dolly Parton/Emmy Lou Harris/Linda Ronstadt |
Those Memories |
Trio |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Home Home |
Love Songs, Torch & Bluegrass |
Mountain Fever |
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Dolly Parton |
Little Sparrow |
Little Sparrow |
Sugar Hill |
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Southern Legacy |
Bill From Isonville |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Dolly Parton |
Cash On the Barrelhead |
The Grass is Blue |
Sugar Hill |
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Appalachian Road Show |
Della Jane’s Hart |
(same) |
Billy Blue |
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Dolly Parton |
I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby |
Little Sparrow |
Sugar Hill |
|
Jaelee Roberts |
I’m Putting You Out of My Misery |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Dolly Parton |
In the Sweet By and By |
Mountain Faith |
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Try Hensley |
Tucson |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
Pinecastle |
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Dolly Parton |
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight |
The Grass is Blues |
Sugar Hill |
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The Traveling McCourys |
Gas and Oil |
Single |
McCoury |
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Dolly Parton |
The Grass is Blue |
The Grass is Blue |
Bonfire |
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Larry Cordle |
This Weary Road |
Single |
Mighty Cord |
|
Luke Shamblin |
Pickin’ Back Up |
(same) |
Luke Shamblin |
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Carson Peters |
Walkin’ Back to GA |
Hold On Heart |
Billy Blues |
|
Hugh Moore |
Lock Down Bluebell |
What the Strings Remember |
OMS |
|
Grass Cats |
It Really Doesn’t Matter Any More |
Desperate Times |
New Time |
|
Jackson Harris |
Last Thing on My Mind |
Single |
MJH |
|
Larry Cordle |
Murder on Music Row |
(same) |
Mighty Cord |
|
Daniel Grindstaff |
Denver |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Freight Train |
Pickin’ With Friends |
Clover |
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Kenny & Amanda Smith |
Tears of the Cherokee |
Single |
Farm Boy |
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Bob Miner/Tim McGraw |
Kentucky Bluebird |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Creech’s Mill |
Yesterday |
Single |
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Wells Family Band |
Cry, Cry, Darlin’ |
Someday Soon |
Pillar Stone |
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Red Camel Collective |
Walk Out in the Rain |
Single |
Pinecastle |