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: June 21st, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Jerry Douglas |
Shanandoah Breakdown |
Slide Rule |
Rounder |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Your Love is Like a Flower |
Foggy Mountain Jamboree |
County |
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Lester Flatt |
Father’s Table Grace |
50 Years of Bluegrass |
CMH |
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Larry Keith |
Daddy Was a Mountain Man |
The Old Highway |
Regal |
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Doyle Lawson |
She’s Walking Through My Memory |
Once More |
Sugar Hill |
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Shawn Camp |
Sis Draper |
Ghost of Sis Draper |
Skeeter Bit |
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Virginia Ramblers |
Daddy’s Grave |
Virginia Ramblers |
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Jerry Douglas |
When Papa Played the Dobro |
Slide Rule |
Rounder |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Ruby |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Appalachian Road Show |
Della Jane’s Heart |
(same) |
Billy Blue |
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Jim Watson |
Daddy and Home |
This Worle Would Be Sunshine |
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Lonesome River Band |
Square Dance Friday Night |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Don Rigsby |
Ravishing Ruby |
Hillbilly Heartaches |
Rebel |
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Lorraine Jordan & Country Grass |
Friday Night Blues |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Lou Reid |
Daddy Tried |
Sounds Like Heaven to Me |
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Grascals |
Bend in the River |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Trey Hensley |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Don Rigsby |
Daddy Was a Moonshine Man |
Hillbilly Heartaches |
Rebel |
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Blue Highway |
Is Now the Time |
Single |
Down the Road |
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Rebekah Speers |
Needle in the Heart of WV |
Single |
Huckleberry |
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Hannah Harper |
Daddy’s Hands |
Single |
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Rebekah Speers |
Why Worry |
Single |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Mountain Home |
Single |
Mountain Fever |
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Luke Shamblin |
North on 79 |
Single |
Luke Shamblin |
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Daryl Mosely |
She Knew It All |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Claybank |
Daddy Would Sing |
Playing Hard to Forget |
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Larry Cordle |
This Weary Road |
Single |
Mighty Cord |
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Trey Hensley |
Tucson |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
Pinecastle |
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Grass Cats |
She’s A Good Way to Get the Blues |
(same) |
New Time |
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Jonathan Byrd |
Father’s Day |
Cacalack |
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Hugh Moore |
Lock Down Bluebell |
Single |
OMS |
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Dale Anne Bradley |
Making Plans |
Single |
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Merle Monroe |
Dad |
Back to the Country |
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Junior Sisk |
Brand New Whippoorwill |
Single |
Turnberry |
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Lonesome River Band |
The House My Daddy Built |
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Country Gentlemen |
Matterhorn |
Live in Japan |
Rebel |
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Old Crow Medicine Show/Molly Tuttle |
My Side of the Mountain |
Single |
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Caroline Owens |
Evangeline |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Traveling McCourys |
Gas & Oil |
Single |
McCoury |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
We See Love |
Single |
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Po’ Ramblin Boys |
Walnut, Hickory and Pine |
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Alecia Nugent |
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like My Daddy Anymore |
Old Side of Town |
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New Tradition |
Prodigal Son |
Stand and Be Counted |
Crossroads |