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 8th, 2026
Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
Alan Munde |
Great American Banjo Tune |
Hello Operator |
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The Lonesome River Band |
Long Gone |
Old Country Store |
Rebel |
Little Roy Lewsi |
God Bless America |
Gospel Banjo |
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The Isaacs |
The Star-Spangled Banner |
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Larry Cordle |
Anything Southbound |
Songs from the Workbench |
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J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys |
Will You be Satisfied that Way |
Bluegrass Holiday |
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Pitney-Meyers |
Bear Creek Clay |
Single |
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Po Ramblin Boys |
East Bound and Down |
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Rhonda Vincent |
When the Grass Grows Over Me |
With the Bluegrass Legends |
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Charlie Sizemore |
That’s How I Got to Memphis |
Heartache Looking for a Home |
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Sam Bush |
Howling at the Moon |
Howling at the Moon |
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Nashville Bluegrass Band |
Blue Train |
Choice Picks |
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Ricky Skaggs |
Road to Spencer |
History of the Future |
Skaggs |
Seldom Scene |
Breaking New Ground |
20th Anniversary Concert |
Sugar Hill |
Marty Raybon |
Prayer Bells of Heaven |
Full Circle |
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Bill Monroe |
Toy Heart |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Castle Rock Turnpike |
Single |
Pinecastle |
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
Misery River |
The Original Band |
Sugar Hill |
Trey Hinsley |
Tucson |
Single |
Pinecastle |
The Grass Cats |
Take It on the Run |
A Good Way to Get the Blues |
New Time |
Don Rigsby |
Empty Old Mailbox |
Empty Old Mailbox |
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Cody Norris Show |
Ruby Jane |
Highfalutin’ Hillbilly |
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Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out |
Take Me Home Country Roads |
Bluegrassed |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
I’ve Got that Old Feeling |
I’ve Got that Old Feeling |
Rounder |
Volume Five |
Thorn Tree Shade |
Run |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Sea Stories |
Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 2 |
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The Cox Family |
Another Lonesome Morning |
Beyond the City |
Rounder |
The Country Gentlemen |
Souvenirs |
The Country Gentlemen |
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Molly Tuttle |
El Dorado |
City of Gold |
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Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
True Grass Again |
True Grass Again |
Pinecastle |
Lester Flat & Earl Scruggs |
Baby Blue Eyes |
The Complete Mercury Sessions |
Mercury |
Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina |
Big Mon |
Carolina Moon |
Rebel |
Adam Steffey |
Let Me Fall |
One More for the Road |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party |
36 Years and Counting |
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Daryl Mosely |
She Knew It All |
Single |
Pinecastle |
Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Larry’s Guitar |
Pick Another One, Son |
Clover |
Seldom Scene |
Say You Lied |
15th Anniversary Celebration |
Sugar Hill |
Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Another Day, Another Dollar |
Every Time You Say Goodbye |
Rounder |
Terry Baucom/Jon Randall Stewart |
You Live in a World All Your Own |
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Balsam Range |
East Virginia Blues |
Trains I Missed |
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Authentic Unlimited |
Cost of Living |
Single |
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Blue Highway |
Keen Mountain Prison |
Single |
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Blue Highway |
Wicked Pathway of Sin |
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Carl Jackson & John Starling |
Lonesome Dove |
Spring Training |
Sugar Hill |
Constant Change |
The Rabbit Song |
Evolving |
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Del McCoury |
A Far Cry |
Celebrating 50 Years |
McCoury |
II Generation |
Hide Your Love |
II Generation |
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Larry Sparks |
Love of the Mountains |
Classic Bluegrass |
Rebel |
Lonesome River Band |
Laura Jean |
Chronology, Vol. 1 |