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: October 18th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Alan Munde |
Earl’s Breakdown |
Festival Favorites Revisited |
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Alecia Nugent |
Too good to be true |
A little girl, a big four lane |
Rounder |
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Lonesome River Band |
Square Dance Friday Night |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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David Grindstaff |
Denver |
Single |
Bonfire |
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The Traveling McCourys |
She Did Break |
Single |
McCoury |
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Piney-Meyers |
Bear Creek Clay |
Single |
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Jaelee Roberts |
Looking for Yourself |
Looking for Yourself |
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Jason Carter/Michael Cleveland |
With a Vamp in the Middle |
Carter and Cleveland |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
Somehow Tonight |
Songs of Flatt & Scruggs |
Rounder |
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Zach Top |
That’s How I Got to Memphis |
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Billy Strings |
The Ballad of Curtis Loew |
Live in Nashville July 26, 2020 |
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
Sadie’s Got Her New Dress On |
There’s more behind the picture |
Rounder |
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Jimmy Martin |
Rock Hearts |
You don’t know my mind |
Rounder |
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The Seldom Scene |
Fallen Leaves |
Baptizing |
Rebel |
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Jim Mills |
Black Jack |
My Dixie Home |
Sugar Hill |
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Trey Hinsley |
Tucson |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
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The Chapmans |
Old Man in the Shanty |
Follow Me |
Pinecastle |
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Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out |
Hard Rock Mountain Prison |
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Every Time You Say Goodbye |
Every Time You Say Goodbye |
Rounder |
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Balsam Range |
Trains I missed |
Trains I missed |
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Charlie Albertson |
My Life’s Gonna Be Sunshine |
Single |
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Junior Sisk |
Just Load the Wagon |
Load the Wagon |
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The Johnson Mountain Boys |
Our Last Goodbye |
The Johnson Mountain Boys |
Rounder |
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Jerry Douglas |
Dixie Hoedown |
Everything’s gonna work out fine |
Rounder |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Moonshine on the Still |
Single |
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James Alan Shelton |
Blue in the Blueridge |
Blue in the Blueridge |
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James King |
Crazy Heart |
Lonesome and then some |
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Bluegrass 95 |
Wildwood Flower |
Bluegrass 95 |
Pinecastle |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Sitting here without you |
Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 |
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Continental Divide |
In Despair |
On the Divide |
Pinecastle |
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Bluegrass 2022 |
EMD |
Bluegrass 2020 |
Pinecastle |
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Curtis Wright |
Going through Carolina |
Curtis Wright |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Years Ago |
Sings the Statler Brothers |
Rounder |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Another Day, Another Dollar |
Every time you say goodbye |
Rounder |
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Nixon, Blevins and Gage |
Ghosts of Richland Creek |
Pick another one, son |
Clover |
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Billy Strings |
Know it all |
Renewal |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Used to be |
Bluegrass Reunion Style |
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The Grascals |
Bend in the River |
Not That Gone |
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The Cox Family |
Another Lonesome Morning |
Beyond the City |
Rounder |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Welcome to New York |
The Country Gentlemen |
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Ronnie Bowman |
Cold Virginia Night |
Cold Virginia Night |
Doobie Shea |
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Russell Johnson |
Those Old Tarheels |
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The Kody Norris Show |
Ruby Jane |
High Falutin’ Hillbilly |
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Clyde Mattocks |
Rebecca |
Hugging the Hound |
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Donna Hughes |
Give me a trail |
Single |
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Tony Rice |
Home from the Forest |
Manzanita |
Rounder |
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Rhonda Vincent |
Muleskinner Blues |
Ragin’ Live |
Rounder |
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Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina |
I’m gonna hold to his hand |
Carolina Blue |
Rebel |