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 Playlist: May 22, 2022
Artist | Song Title | Album Title | Record Label |
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Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder | Road to Spencer | History of the Future | Skaggs |
Lou Reid | One Track Man | When it Rains | Sugar Hill |
Billy Strings | Red Daisy | Renewal | |
J.D. Crowe & the New South | I’m Not Broke | The World’s Greatest Show | Sugar Hill |
Volume Five | When Karma Comes Calling | Single | |
Osborne Brothers | I’ll Be Alright Tomorrow | Once More | Sugar Hill |
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | I’ll Go Stepping Too | Flatt & Scruggs | |
Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time | Delta Queen | Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time | Sugar Hill |
Chris Jones & the Night Drivers | Man By the Side of the Road | Lost Souls & Free Spirits | |
The Grascals | Up All Night, Sleep All Day | Up All Night | |
Marty Raybon | Drips Rock, Kentucky | Single | |
Matt Wallace | Got Leavin’ on Her Mind | For a Season | |
McPeak Brothers | Lost River | Classic Bluegrass | Rebel |
Seldom Scene | Hello Mary Lou | The Best of the Seldom Scene | |
Country Gazette | Don’t Let Nobody Tie You Down | Hello Operator | |
Del McCoury | Let an Old Racehorse Run | It’s Just the Night | |
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Love on Arrival | Drive Time | Rounder |
Mac Wiseman | Jimmy Brown the Newsboy | 50 years of Bluegrass Hits | |
Bluegrass 2022 | EMD | Bluegrass 2022 | |
Charlie Sizemore | No Lawyers in Heaven | Heartache Looking for a Home | |
The Grass Cats | Johnson’s Love | 9 Lives and More | New Time |
Johnson Mountain Boys | Our Last Goodbye | The Johnson Mountain Boys | |
The Isaacs | He Ain’t Never | ||
Ronnie Bowman | Will You Be Lonesome Too | Cold Virginia Night | Dobbie Shea |
Hot Rize | Just Like You | Untold Stories | Sugar Hill |
Larry Cordle | Lost as a Ball in High Weeds | Songs from the Workbench | |
Jason Davis | Bootleg John | Second Time Around | Pinecastle |
J.D. Crowe & the New South | You Didn’t Say Goodbye | Come on Down to My World | Rounder |
J.D. Crowe & the New South | Grandpa’s Shoes | Come on Down to My World | Rounder |
Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion | Heartbreak Mountain | Bluegrass Reunion Style | |
Alison Krauss & Union Station | I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby | Now that I Found You | Rounder |
Seldom Scene | Wait a Minute | Different Roads | Rebel |
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | Cumberland Gap | Foggy Mountain Banjo | Sony |
Irene Kelly | Wild Mountain Stream | Single | |
Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time | Highway 40 Blues | Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time | Sugar Hill |
Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time | Kentucky King | Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time | Sugar Hill |
The Chapmans | Don’t Let Me Cross Over | Follow Me | Pinecastle |
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out | Brown County Red | It’s about Tyme | |
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out | Take Me Home Country Roads | Bluegrassed | |
Larry Sparks | Blueridge Cabin Home | Best of Larry Sparks | Rebel |
Larry Sparks | Brown Eyed Darling | Lonesome and Blue | Rebel |
Dale Ann Bradley & Danny Paisley | One by One | Single | |
Country Gentlemen | In My Younger Days | Joe’s Last Train | Rebel |
Country Gentlemen | Welcome to New York | The Country Gentlemen | |
The Cox Family | Another Lonesome Morning | Beyond the City | Rounder |
The Cox Family | Cowboys Dream | Beyond the City | Rounder |
Marty Raybon | A Little More Sawdust on the Floor | The Back Forty | |
Marty Raybon | The Late Night Cry of the Whippoorwill | The Back Forty | |
Tony Rice | Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald | Sings Gordon Lightfoot | Rounder |