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 13th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Foggy Mountain Chimes |
Foggy Mountain Jamboree |
County |
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Tony Rice |
Banks of the Ohio |
Tony Rice |
Rounder |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
Rock Hearts |
Volume V |
Rounder |
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Grascals |
Bend in the River |
Single |
Billly Blue |
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Tim O’Brien |
Last Train From Poor Valley |
Tim O’Brien Band |
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Red Camel Collective |
Finding Your Way Home |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Lonesome River Band |
Carollyn the Teenage Queen |
One Step Ahead |
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Trey Hensley |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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The Tuttles |
Oh Mandolin |
Endless Ocean |
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Danny Paisley |
Bluegrass State of Mind |
(same) |
Mountain Home |
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Steeldrivers |
Drinking Dark Whiskey |
The Steeldrivers |
Rounder |
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Lonesome River Band |
Square Dance Friday Night |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Seldom Scene |
Old Train |
Different Roads |
Rebel |
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Shawn Camp |
Sis Draper |
Ghost of Sis Draper |
Skeeter Bit |
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Lorraine Jordan & Country Grass |
Friday Night Blues |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Mountain Home |
Love Songs, Torch & Bluegrass |
Mountain Fever |
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Country Gentlemen |
Dixieland for Me |
Joe’s Last Train |
Rebel |
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Southern Legacy |
Bill From Isonville |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Grass Cats |
Seven Bridges Road/85 on *5 |
9 Lives & More |
New Time |
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Appalachian Road Show |
Della Jane’s Hart |
(same) |
Billy Blue |
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Donna Huges |
Grass Ain’t Greener |
Single |
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Jaelee Roberts |
I’m Putting You Out of My Misery |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Interview with Luke Shamblin |
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Luke Shamblin |
Hills of Home |
Pickin’ Back Up |
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Luke Shamblin |
North on 79 |
Pickin’ Back Up |
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Luke Shamblin |
Elkview to Pickletown |
Pickin’ Back Up |
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Luke Shamblin |
Pickin’ Back Up |
Pickin’ Back Up |
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Don Schlitz |
Bad Decisions |
Mountain Top |
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Don Rigsby |
Ravishing Rubly |
For the Long Haul |
Rebel |
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Hugh Moore |
Lock Down Bluebell |
What the Strings Remember |
OMS |
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Trey Hensley |
Tucson |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
Pinecastle |
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Danile Grindstaff |
Denver |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Larry Cordle |
This Weary Road |
Single |
Mighty Cord |
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Ashby Frank |
Mr. Engineer |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Vince Gill/Alison Krauss |
High Lonesome Sound |
(same) |
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Grass Cats |
Copperhead Road |
New Time |
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VW Boys |
Five Pounds of Possum |
The Possum Tapes |
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Detour |
Quarterline Road |
A Better Place |
Mountain Fever |
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Carson Peters |
Walking Back to GA |
Hold on Heart |
Billy Blue |
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James King |
A Few Old Memories |
Lonesome and Then Some |
Rounder |
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Jackson Harris/Rhonda Vincent |
Last Thing on My Mind |
Single |
MJH |
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Jerry Salley |
What Love Looks Like Today |
The Songwriter |
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Tony Rice |
Early Morning Rain |
Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot |
Rounder |