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: February 15th, 2026
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Artist
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Song Title
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Album Title
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Record Label
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Kenny Baker |
Jerusalem Ridge |
High Lonesome |
CMH |
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Flatt & Scrugg |
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight |
1959-63 |
Bear Family |
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Larry Sparks |
Way Back When |
(same) |
Rebel |
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Junior Sisk |
Sweeter Than Tupelo Honey |
It’s All Fun and Games |
Turnberry |
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Tony Rice |
Cold on the Shoulder |
(same) |
Rounder |
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Becky Buller |
Ride On By |
Songs That Sing Me |
Dark Shadow |
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Big Country Bluegrass |
Carry Me Back to the Bluegrass |
(same) |
Rebel |
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Alison Kraus |
Blue and Lonesome |
Down From the Mountain |
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Nashville Bluegrass Band |
Last Time on the Road |
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Joe Mullins |
Black and Decker Blues |
Lovin’, Fightin’, Losin’ Sleep |
Billy Blue |
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Caroline Owens |
Telluride |
(single) |
Billy Blue |
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Shawn Camp |
Sis Draper |
The Ghost of Sis Draper |
Skeeter Bit |
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Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
I Heard You Call His Name Last Night |
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
Pinecastsle |
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Appalachian Road Show |
Della Jane’s Heart |
(same) |
Billy Blue |
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Grascals/Dolly Parton |
Broken Angels |
(single) |
Billy Blue |
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Authentic Unlimited |
Cost of Living |
(single) |
Edisonic |
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Cassie Dunn |
Bluegrass Girl |
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East Nash Grass |
Hill Country Highway |
God’s Children |
Mountain Fever |
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Luke Shamblin |
Hills of Home |
(single) |
Luke Shamblin |
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Bob Miner/Rhonda Vincent |
Listening to the Rain |
(single) |
Billy Blue |
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Carrie Hassler |
She’s a Stranger in His Mind |
CHHR2 |
Rural Rhythm |
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Southern Legacy |
Hills of Carter County |
(single) |
Pinecastle |
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Starlette & Big John |
Till the End of the Road |
(same) |
Mountain Fever |
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Liam Purcell |
Soldier’s Heart |
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Appalachian Road Show |
Won’t Be Long |
Della Jane’s Heart |
Billy Blue |
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Danny Paisley |
Bluegrass State of Mine |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Tiffany Williams |
Blue Kentucky Girl |
(same) |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Mountain Home |
(singles) |
Mountain Fever |
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Nu-Blu |
Time Still On Your Side |
(same) |
Rural Rhythm |
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Trey Hensley |
One White Line at a Time |
S |
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Chapmans |
Don’t Let Me Cross Over |
Follow Me |
Pinecastle |
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IIIrd Tyme Out |
Rose of My Heart |
John and Mary |
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Lou Reid |
When It Rains |
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Sugar Hill |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
All I Really Need |
Pick One For Me |
Clover |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Story of Bonnie & Clyde |
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Grass Cats |
Johnson’s Love |
9 Lives and More |
New Time |
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Rebekah Speers |
Needle in the Heart of WV |
(single) |
Huckleberry |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
The Death of John Henry |
Daniel Grindstaff and the Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Sideline |
Just a Guy in a Bar |
Ups, Downs, No Name Towns |
Mountain Home |
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