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: November 8th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Alison Brown, Gena Britt, Kristen Benson |
Ralph’s Banjo Special |
Compass |
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Flatt & Scrugg |
Drinkin’ That Mash and Talkin’ That Trash |
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Becky Buller/Jim Lauderdale |
Wall Around Your Heart |
Songs That Sing Me |
Dark Shadow |
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Junior Sisk |
A Brand New Whippoorwill |
Single |
Turnberry |
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Doyle Lawson/Jerry Salley |
When It’s Time for the Whippoorwill to Sing |
Salute to the Delmore Brothers |
Billy Blue |
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Lonesome River Band |
Square Dance Friday Night |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Jimmy Martin |
Truck Drivin’ Man |
20 Greatest Hits |
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Grascals |
Bend in the River |
Not That Gone |
Billy Blue |
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Alison Kraus |
Too Late to Cry |
(same) |
Rounder |
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Del McCoury |
1952 Vincent Black Lightning |
Del and the Boys |
McCoury |
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Red Camel Collective |
Finding Your Way Home |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Sideline |
Uphill Climb |
Colors and Crossroads |
Mountain Home |
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Southern Legacy |
Bill From Isonville |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Billy Strings |
Mill Town Flood |
So Much for Goodbye |
Reprise |
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Jaelee Roberts |
I’m Putting You Out of My Misery |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Luke Shamblin |
Pickin’ Back Up |
(same) |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Denver |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Ashby Frank |
Make Your Mama Proud |
Leavin’ is Believin’ |
Mountain Home |
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Red Camel Collective |
Walk Out in the Rain |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Lorraine Jordan & Country Grass |
Friday Night Blues |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Della Mae |
Family Tree |
Magic Accident |
Compass |
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Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
Nolichucky |
(same) |
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Kenny & Amanda Smith |
Tears of the Cherokee |
Whole World Round |
Farm Boy |
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Hugh Moore |
Lock Down Bluebell |
What the Strings Remember |
CMS |
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Travelin’ McCourys |
Gas and Oil |
Single |
McCoury Music |
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Diamond Creek |
Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine |
Where Do We Go From Here |
New Time |
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Carson Peters |
Walking Back to Georgia |
Hold on Heart |
Billy blue |
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Larry Cordle/Alison Krauss |
Two Highways |
All Star Duets |
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Grass Cats |
Unwanted Love |
The Mountains My Baby and Me |
New Time |
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Bronwyn |
Sticks & Stones |
Rattlin’ Bones |
Sugar Petunia |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
Toy Heart |
Volume One |
Rounder |
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Doyle Lawson |
The Signs |
Single |
Turnberry |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Delilah |
Love Songs, Torch and Bluegrass |
Mountain Fever |
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Old Crow Medicine Show |
My Side of the Mountain |
Single |
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Michael Johson |
Banjokes |
Rounder |
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Balsam Range |
The Life I Left Behind |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Mike Miklos |
Georgia on a Fast Train |
Pocono Joe |
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Dolly Parton |
Bound to Ride |
First Ladies of Bluegrass |
Compass |
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Marija Droze |
Listen to Your Heart |
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Jaelee Roberts |
Memories on the Moon |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Osborne Brothers |
Bid Spike Hammer |
Once More |
Sugar Hill |
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High Fidelity |
Red Ball Rocket Train |
Single |
Rebel |
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Hannah Harper |
String Cheese |
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Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra |
Going Back to Harlan |
Migrants |