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: July 6th, 2025
Artist | Song Title | Album Title | Record Label |
Ben Green | God Bless America | United We Stand | Pinecastle |
Flatt & Scruggs | Rolling In My Sweet Baby’s Arms | Complete Mercury Sessions | Mercury |
Bluegrass Album Band | Somehow Tonight | Volume 4 | Rounder |
Caroline Owens | You’ve Still Got It | (single) | Billyblue |
Michael Cleveland/Jason Carter | Outrun the Rain | Carter & Cleveland | Fiddle Man |
Tim Raybon | Arlington | (single) | Pinecastle |
Rhonda Vincent | All American Bluegrass Girl | (same) | Upper Mgmt. |
Kruger Brothers | Streamlined Cannonball | Remembering Doc | |
Amanda Cook | Last Road Going Home | Restless Soul | Mountain Fever |
Woody Platt | Toe the Line | Far Away With You | Compass |
Larry Cordle | Black Diamond Strings | Murder on Music Row | |
Dale Anne Bradley | Jackson, TN | (single) | Pinecastle |
Sister Sadie | All Will Be Well | (single) | Pinecastle |
Joe Mullins | The Good Ole Days | Lovin’ Fightin’ Losin’ Sleep | Billy Blue |
Darin & Brooke Aldridge/Vince Gill | A Million Memories | Talk of the Town | Billy Blue |
James King | She Took His Breath Away | Bluegrass Storyteller | Rounder |
Alison Kraus | Looks Like the End of The Road | Arcadia | Down the Road |
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | They Call It Bluegrass | Bill Monroe’s Ol Mandolin | Pinecastle |
Grass Cats | A Good Way to Get the Blues | (same) | New Time |
Sideline | I’m in Tennessee | (single) | Mountain Home |
Red Camel Collective | Daughter of the Stars | Red Camel Collective | Pinecastle |
Becky Buller | Reach | (single) | Dark Shadow |
Russell Johnson | Waltz With Melissa | Picture from the Past | New Time |
King James Boys | Ready and Waitin’ | Get a Transfer | |
Billy Strings | Leanin’ on a Travelin’ Song | Highway Prayer | Reprise |
Leftover Salmon/Billy Strings | Nashville Skyline Rag | ||
Alison Brown/Steve Martin/Tim O’brien | 5 Days Out, 2 Days Back | (single) | Compass |
Alison Kraus/Vince Gill | Catfish John | Live at the Grand Ol’ Opry | |
Kenny & Amanda Smith | Million Lonely Days | (single) | Farm Boy |
Jimmy Martin | Rock Hearts | You Don’t Know My Mind | |
Alison Kraus | North Side Gal | Arcadia | Down the Road |
Sideline | I’m In Tennessee | (single) | Mountain Home |
Swift Creek | Rock Me Grandpa | Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner | Swift Creek |
Nu Blu | Time, Still on Your Side | Where You’ve Been | Turnberry |
Vicki Vaughn | Leavin’ | (single) | Mountain Home |
Larry Cordle | Murder on Music Row | (same) | |
Peter Rowan | Trail of Tears | New Moon Rising | Sugar Hill |
Junior Sisk | Sweeter Than Tupelo Honey | (single) | Turnberry |
Nixon, Blevins & Gage | All I Really Need | Pick One For Me | Clover |
Larry Cordle | Lost as Ball in High Weeds | Songs From the Workbench | Mighty Cord |
Lou Reid | Smokey Mountain Rain | (single) | |
Marija Drove | Listen to Your Heart | (single) | |
Cockman Family | Patriotic Medley | All About Love | Cockman |