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: September 20th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Alan Munde |
Hot Burrito Breakdown |
Festival Favorites Revisited |
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Billy Swinson |
Greener Grass |
Greener Grass |
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Josh Williams |
We’ll Burn That Bridge |
Down Home |
Pinecastle |
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Jonathon Edwards/Seldom Scene |
Only a Hobo |
Blueridge |
Rebel |
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Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina |
Don’t pass me by |
Carolina Blue |
Rebel |
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Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out |
Hard Rock Mountain Prison |
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out |
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Trey Hinsley |
Tucson |
Can’t outrun the blues |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Endless Highway |
I’ve got that old feeling |
Rounder |
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Chris Jones |
The man by the side of the road |
Lost Souls and Free Spirits |
Pinecastle |
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Del McCoury |
1952 Vincent Black Lightning |
Del and the Boys |
McCoury |
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Dolly Parton |
Train, Train |
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The Osborne Brothers |
Rocky Top |
High Lonesome |
MCA |
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New Vintage |
Down in the Willow Garden |
No time for the blues |
New Time |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Castle Rock Turnpike |
Single |
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Flatt and Scruggs |
Footprints in the snow |
1959-1963 |
Bear Family |
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Larry Sparks |
It’s too Late to Walk the Floor |
Classic Bluegrass |
Rebel |
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Tony Rice |
Stoney Point |
Manzanita |
Rounder |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Life ain’t fair |
Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 |
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Ralph Stanley/Patty Loveless |
Pretty Polly |
Clinch Mountain Country |
Rebel |
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New Grass Revival |
This Heart of Mine |
Fly across the Country |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Legend of the Rebel Soldier |
The Award-Winning Country Gentlemen |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Walking down the line |
The Award-Winning Country Gentlemen |
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Del McCoury |
Let an Old Racehorse Run |
It’s just the night |
McCoury |
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Del McCoury/Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
Love, please come home |
Will the Circle be Unbroken Vol 3 |
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Seldom Scene |
Baby Blue |
Live at the Cellar Door |
Rebel |
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Seldom Scene |
Dark Hollow |
Live at the Cellar Door |
Rebel |
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Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
Nolichucky |
Nolichucky |
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Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
Why did you wander |
Nolichucky |
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Ricky Skaggs |
Little cabin on the hill |
Sweet Temptations |
Sugar Hill |
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Rick Skaggs |
Walls of time |
Can’t you hear me callin’ |
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
Down the Road |
The Complete Mercury Sessions |
Mercury |
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
Cumberland Gap |
Foggy Mountain Banjo |
Sony |
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Rhonda Vincent |
Muleskinner Blues |
Ragin’ Live |
Rounder |
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Rhonda Vincent |
Jolene |
Ragin’ Live |
Rounder |
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Jim Mills |
Theme Time |
Hide Head Blues |
Sugar Hill |
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Jody King |
Jet Airliner |
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Jimmy Martin |
The Last Song |
Fifty Golden Years |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Deep River Blues |
Pick another one, son |
Clover |
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Tony Rice |
Manzanita |
Manzanita |
Rounder |
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Mike Snider |
The Lawnmower Story |
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Billy Strings |
Richard Petty |
Highway Prayers |
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The Grass Cats |
Carolina Blue |
A Good Way to Get the Blues |
New Time |
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Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
They Call it Bluegrass |
Bill Monroe’s Ol’ Mandolin |
Pinecastle |
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Lost and Found |
Southern Train |
Across the Blueridge |
Rebel |
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Lost and Found |
If Today was the Last Day |
Love, lost and found |
Rebel |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Crying Holy |
Bluegrass the Reunion Way |
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Here Today |
My Walking Shoes |
Here Today |
Rounder |
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Charlie Sizemore |
That’s how I got to Memphis |
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Harley Allen-Mike Lilly |
I don’t believe you met my baby |
Allen-Lilly Band |
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Highway 58 |
Tim’s Way |
Highway 58 Bluegrass |
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Molly Tuttle |
Crooked Tree |
Crooked Tree |
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Sam Bush |
Whisper My Name |
Circles around me |
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Sam Bush |
Howling at the Moon |
Howling at the Moon |
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Blue Highway |
Some Day |
Lonesome Pine |
Rounder |
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J.D. Crowe & the New South |
Back to the Barrooms |
Come on down to my World |
Rounder |