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: August 16th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Gina Britt, Alison Brown, Kirsten Benson |
Ralph’s Banjo Special |
Single |
Compass |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Doing My Time |
Complete Mercury Sessions |
Mercury |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
I’ll Never Shed Another Tear |
Volume 4` |
Rounder |
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Balsam Range |
Trains I Missed |
(same) |
Mountain Home |
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Seldom Scene |
Old Train |
(same) |
Rebel |
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Red Camel Collective |
Finding Your Way Home |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Hannah Harper |
Grandpa |
Single |
Acoustic Shoppe |
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Trey Hensley |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Gill, Grisman, Pederson |
Once More |
Here Tod |
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Lonesome River Band |
Square Dance Friday Night |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Danny Paisley |
Bluegrass State of Mine |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Mountain Home |
Love Songs, Torch & Bluegrass |
Mountain Fever |
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Alison Kraus |
I Don’t Know Why |
(same) |
Rounder |
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Lorraine Jordan & Country Grass |
Friday Night Blues |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Death of John Henry |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Grascals |
Bend in the River |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Southern Legacy |
Bill From Isonville |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Creech Mountain |
Yesterday |
Single |
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Luke Shamblin |
North on 79 |
Pickin’ Back Up |
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Appalachian Road Show |
Della Jane’s Hart |
(same) |
Billy Blue |
|
IBMA Foundation |
I Am Bluegrass |
Single |
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Grass Cats |
I Know It’s Not Me |
Desperate Times |
New Time |
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Jackson Harris/Rhonda Vincent |
Last Thing on My Mind |
Single |
MJH |
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New Found Road |
The World to You |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Doc Watson/Kruger Brothers |
Shady Grove |
Remembering Doc |
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Jaelee Roberts |
I’m Putting You Out of My Memory |
Single |
Mountain Home |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
We See Love |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Trey Hensley |
Tucson |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
Pinecastle |
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Danile Grindstaff |
The Death of John Henry |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Tom T. Hall |
Once Upon a Road |
Tom T. Sings Tom T. and Dixie |
Blue Circle |
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Hugh Moore |
Will You Miss Me |
What the Strings Remember |
OMS |
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New Found Road |
The World to You |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Lost & Found |
Southern Train |
Across the Blue Ridge Mtns |
Rebel |
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James King |
She Took His Breath Away |
Bluegrass Storyteller |
Rounder |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Denver |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Lonesome River Band |
Stray Dogs and Alley Cats |
Window of Time |
|
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Kenny & Amanda Smith |
Tears of the Cherokee |
Single |
Farm Boy |
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Bob Miner/Tim McGraw |
Kentucky Bluebird |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Tennessee |
Cuttin’ Grass |
High Top Mtn |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Moon Shines on the Still |
A Beautiful Life |
Pillar Stone |
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Red Camel Collective |
Walk Out in the Rain |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Mountain Railway |
Pickin’ On Baptists |
Clover |
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J. D. Crowe & New South |
Summer Wages |
J. D. Crowe & New South |
Rounder |
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Doyle Lawson |
Sweetheart, You Done Me Wrong |
News is Out |
Sugar Hill |
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Bronwyn |
Sticks and Stones |
Single |
Compass |
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Donna Hughes |
Grass Ain’t Greener |
Single |
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Brandon Rickman |
I Bought Her a Dog |
Young Man, Old Soul |
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Bryan Sutton/Doc Watson |
Working Man Blues |
Single |
Mountain Home |