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.![]()
Weekly Playlist
PineCone Bluegrass Show Playlist: November 16th, 2025
| Artist | Song Title | Album Title | Record Label |
| Tony Rice | Stoney Creek | Tony Rice | Rounder |
| Vince Gill/Alison Krauss | High Lonesome Sound | Choice Picks | |
| Bill Monroe | I’m on My Way Back to the Old Home | High Lonesome | MCA |
| Joe Mullins | Time Adds Up If You’re Lucky | Lovin; Fightin; Losing Sleep | |
| Sister Sadie/Po’ Ramblin’ Boys | Just a Holler Over | Single | |
| Molly Tuttle | El Dorado | City of Gold | |
| Terry Baucom | They Call Me Trouble | Catch Another Dream | |
| Jason Carter/Michael Cleveland | With a Vamp in the Middle | Carter and Cleveland | |
| J.D. Crowe & the New South | White Freightliner | Come on Down to my World | Rounder |
| Del McCoury | If You Talk in Your Sleep | Single | |
| Kody Norris Show | Ruby Jane | Highfalutin’ Hillbilly | |
| The Osborne Brothers | Ruby | High Lonesome | MCA |
| Junior Sisk | Sweet as Tupelo Honey | Single | |
| Lonesome River Band | My Sweet Blue Eyed Darling | Carrying the Tradition | Rebel |
| Audie Blaylock | A Voice of my Savior | Christmas the Mountain Way | |
| Alison Krauss | Don’t Follow Me | Too Late to Cry | Rounder |
| Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | Home Sweet Home | Foggy Mountain Banjo | Sony |
| Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | Just Ain’t | The Essential Flatt & Scruggs | |
| Leftover Salmon/Del McCoury | Twisted Pine | Let’s Party About It | |
| Seldom Scene | Old Train | Old Train | Rebel |
| Seldom Scene | Different Roads | Old Train | Rebel |
| Seth Mulder | Back to the Carolinas | Coming on Strong | |
| Seth Mulder | Coming on Strong | Coming on Strong | |
| Tony Rice | Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Sings Gordon Lightfoote | Rounder |
| Tony Rice | Home from the Forest | Sings Gordon Lightfoote | Rounder |
| Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina | Lonesome Old Homesick Blues | Carolina Blue | Rebel |
| Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina | Don’t Pass Me By | Carolina Blue | Rebel |
| Jaelee Roberts | Looking for Yourself | Looking for Yourself | |
| Jaelee Roberts | Thin Again | Single | |
| Bluegrass 2022 | EMD | Bluegrass 2022 | Pinecastle |
| Billy Strings | Red Daisy | Renewal | |
| Country Gazette | Saro Jane | Hello Operator | |
| Bluegrass Album Band | Somehow Tonight | Songs of Flatt & Scruggs | Rounder |
| Sturgill Simpson | Tennessee | Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 | |
| Nixon, Blevins & Gage | Doc’s Guitar | Pick another one, son | Clover |
| Alison Krauss & Union Station | Richmond on the James | Arcadia | |
| Russell Johnson | Bluegrass Time | Anytime, Anyplace but Only You | New Time |
| Larry Sparks | Brown Eyed Darling | Lonesome and Blue | |
| IIIrd Tyme Out | Erase the Miles | Cream of the Crop | |
| Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion | Used to Be | Bluegrass Reunion Style | |
| Ricky Skaggs | Road to Spencer | History of the Future | Skaggs |
| Lost & Found | Southern Train | Across the Blueridge Mountains | Rebel |
| Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | I Saw Those Golden Stairs | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | |
| Lonesome Standard Time | Lower on the Hog | Lonesome Standard Time | Sugar Hill |