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 1st, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Jerry Douglas |
Ride the Wild Turkey |
Everything’s gonna work out fine |
Rounder |
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Larry Cordle |
Anything Southbound |
Songs from the Workbench |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Denver |
Daniel Grindstaff |
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
Little girl of mine in Tennessee |
The Complete Mercury Sessions |
Mercury |
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Leftover Salman/Del McCoury |
Twisted Pine |
Let’s Party About It |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Bed of Roses |
Sings the Statler Brothers |
Rounder |
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Alan Jackson |
Appalachian Mountain Girl |
The Bluegrass Album |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Choctaw Hayride |
Live |
Rounder |
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Kody Norris |
Ruby Jane |
High Falutin’ Hillbilly |
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Alan Bibey & Grasstowne |
Take the Long Way Home |
Hitchhiking to California |
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Blue Highway |
In the Gravel Yard |
Lonesome Pine |
Rounder |
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Billy Strings |
Dust in a Baggie |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
I’m Waiting for You to Call Me |
Rounder |
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Mickey Harris |
Heartbreakin’ Old Achin Blues |
Things that I like |
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Lou Reid & Carolina |
Amandalynn |
My own set of rules |
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Jim Mills |
Theme Time |
Hide Head Blues |
Sugar Hill |
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Donna Hughes |
Give me a trail |
Single |
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Jimmy Martin |
Walking Shoes |
Fifty Golden Years |
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Tony Rice |
Banks of the Ohio |
Tony Rice |
Rounder |
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Billy Strings |
Tennessee |
My Bluegrass Heart |
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Sam Bush |
When the Storm Is Over |
My Bluegrass Heart |
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Ricky Skaggs |
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke |
History of the Future |
Skaggs |
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Junior Sisk |
Just Load the Wagon |
Load the Wagon |
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J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys |
You go to your church |
Bluegrass Holiday |
Rebel |
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Lost & Found |
The Farmer’s Daughter |
January Rain |
Rebel |
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Seldom Scene |
Breaking New Ground |
20th Anniversary Concert |
Sugar Hill |
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Seldom Scene |
Gardens and Memories |
20th Anniversary Concert |
Sugar Hill |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Windy & Warm |
Pickin’ on Doc |
Clover |
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Country Gentlemen |
The Legend of the Rebel Soldier |
The Award-Winning Country Gentlemen |
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Vince Gill |
Two Baby Blue Eyes |
Industrial Strength Bluegrass |
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Byron Berline/Vince Gill |
Rose of Old Kentucky |
Fiddle & a Song |
Sugar Hill |
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The Grass Cats |
Searching for a Rainbow |
Desperate Times |
New Time |
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Jerry Douglas |
Randy Lynn Rag |
Everything’s gonna work out fine |
Rounder |
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Trey Hinsley |
Tucson |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Philadelphia Lawyer |
Bluegrass Reunion Style |
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The Penny Family |
Voice of my Savior |
The Penny Family |
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The Penny Family |
Three Men on a Mountain |
The Penny Family |
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Arron McDaris |
Be Good to My Little Baby Girl |
First time around |
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Adam Steffey |
Let me fall |
One more for the road |
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Lorrain Jordan & Carolina Road |
Seminole Wind |
Country Grass |
Pinecastle |
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Dan Tyminski/Molly Tuttle |
Church Street Blues |
One More Time Before You Go |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Castle Rock Turnpike |
Single |
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Billy Strings |
The Ballad of Curtis Loew |
Live in Nashville |
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Charlie Sizemore |
Alison’s Band |
Heartache looking for a home |
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Continental Divide |
Wing and a Prayer |
Continental Divide |
Pinecastle |
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Country Gentlemen |
Secret of the Waterfall |
The Award- Winning Country Gentlemen |
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Don Rigsby |
Mary Jane Won’t You Be Mine |
Kentucky Troubadour |
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Tom Adams |
Little Maggie |
Right Hand Man |
Rounder |
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Country Gazette |
Cabin on a Mountain |
Hello Operator |
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Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time |
You can’t take it with you |
Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time |
Sugar Hill |
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The Grascals |
Saro Jane |
The Grascals |
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Adam Steffey |
Big Mon |
Mandolin Artistry Vol 1 |