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 9th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
Cumberland Gap |
Foggy Mountain Banjo |
Sony |
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Ricky Skaggs |
How Mountain Girls Can Love |
Live at the Charleston Music Hall |
Skaggs |
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Junior Sisk |
Just Load the Wagon |
Load the Wagon |
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Marty Raybon |
Leavin’ on the next thing smokin’ |
This, That and the Other |
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
When I’m knee deep in Bluegrass |
You got to dig a little deeper |
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Longview |
I’ve never been so lonesome |
Longview |
Rounder |
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Del McCoury |
A Far Cry |
Celebrating 50 Years |
McCoury |
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James King |
The Devil’s Train |
Three Chords and the Truth |
Rounder |
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Jim & Jesse |
Flower in the Dessert |
Music among friends |
Rounder |
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Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland |
With a vamp in the middle |
Carter and Cleveland |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
I am a man of constant sorrow |
Live |
Rounder |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Bed of Roses |
Sings the Statler Brothers |
Rounder |
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Gena Britt |
Over and Over |
Chronicles: Friends and Music |
Pinecastle |
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Jimmy Martin |
Stepping Stones |
You don’t know my mind |
Rounder |
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Larry Cordle |
Stray Cat |
Songs from the Workbench |
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Tom Adams |
Little Maggie |
Right Hand Man |
Rounder |
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Trey Hinsley |
Tucson |
Can’t outrun the Blues |
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Vince Gill & Alison Krauss |
High Lonesome Sound |
High Lonesome Sound |
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Vasar Clements |
Orange Blossom Special |
Will the Circle be Unbroken Vol 2 |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Souvenirs |
The Country Gentlemen |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Dixieland for me |
Joe’s Last Train |
Rebel |
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The Bluegrass Album Band |
Blueridge Cabin Home |
Volume 1 |
Rounder |
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The Bluegrass Album Band |
Rock Hearts |
Sweet Sunny South |
Rounder |
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Russell Johnson |
Strength of a Woman |
Anytime, Anyplace but Only You |
New Time |
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Russell Johnson |
Old Moonshiner |
Anytime, Anyplace but Only You |
New Time |
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Sideline |
Mountain Girl |
Session 2 |
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Sideline |
Return to Windy Mountain |
Breaks to the Edge |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Tennessee |
Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 |
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Sturgill Simpson |
All the Pretty Colors |
Cuttin Grass Vol 1 |
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The Kody Norris Show |
Ruby Jane |
High Falutin’ Hillbilly |
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The Kody Norris Show |
The Auctioneer |
High Falutin’ Hillbilly |
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The Seldom Scene |
Big Train from Memphis |
15th Anniversary Celebration |
Sugar Hill |
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The Seldom Scene |
The City of New Orleans |
Live at the Cellar Door |
Rebel |
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J.D. Crowe & the New South |
Sally Goodin’ |
J.D. Crowe & the New South |
Rounder |
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Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
Boogie Grass Band |
Bill Monroe’s Ol’ Mandolin |
Pinecastle |
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The Traveling McCourys |
Lonesome, On’ry and Mean |
The Traveling McCourys |
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Jim Mills |
He came from Carolina |
Bound to Ride |
Sugar Hill |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Brown Mountain Lights |
Picking with Friends |
Clover |
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Trey Hinsley |
Can’t outrun the Blues |
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The Bluegrass Cardinals |
Be good to my little baby girl |
Home is where the Heart is |
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Tony Rice |
Girl from the North Country |
Sings and Plays Bluegrass |
Rounder |
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Tony Rice |
Bitter Green |
Cold on the Shoulder |
Rounder |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Used to be |
Bluegrass Reunion Style |
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Bluegrass 95 |
Paddy on the Turnpike |
Bluegrass 95 |
Pinecastle |
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Brandon Rickman |
One step, two step |
Things kids and dogs know |
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Charlie Albertson |
My Life’s gonna be sunshine |
Single |
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Clay Jones |
Cold Sheets of Rain |
Mountain Trail |
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Josh Williams |
We’ll burn that bridge when we get there |
Down Home |
Pinecastle |
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Larry Cordle |
Cherokee Fiddle |
Where the trees know my name |