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: May 31st, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Lonesome Road Blues |
Foggy Mountain Banjo |
Sony |
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Traditional Grass |
Rough Edges |
The Blues are still the Blues |
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Lonesome River Band |
Katy Daily |
One Step Forward |
Rebel |
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Darrell Webb Band |
If you’re thinking you want a stranger |
Lover’s Leap |
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Larry Cordle |
67 Chevy Malibu |
Took down and put up |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Ruby |
Single |
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The Country Gazette |
Dixie Breakdown |
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Sturgill Simpson |
All the pretty colors |
Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 |
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Authentic Unlimited |
Cost of Living |
Single |
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Joe Mullins |
Blak & Decker Blues |
Lovin’, Fightin’,Losin’ Sleep |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Choctaw Hayride |
Live |
Rounder |
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Dolly Parton |
Train, Train |
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J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys |
You go to your church |
Bluegrass Holiday |
Rebel |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Elizabeth |
Sings the Statler Brothers |
Rounder |
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Doc Watson |
The last thing on my mind |
Elementary Doctor Watson |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Petticoat Junction |
On Foggy Mountain |
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Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder |
Little Maggie |
Bluegrass Hits |
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The Osborne Brothers |
Big Spike Hammer |
Once More |
Sugar Hill |
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Old & in the way |
Panama Red |
Old & in the way |
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Tom Adams |
Bluegrass Breakdown |
Right Hand Man |
Rounder |
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Johnson Mountain Boys |
Our last Goodbye |
The Johnson Mountain Boys |
Rounder |
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The Grass Cats |
Unwanted Love |
The Mountains My Baby and Me |
New Time |
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Jason Carter/Micheal Cleveland |
With a vamp in the middle |
Carter and Cleveland |
Larry Cordle |
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Larry Cordle |
Lost as a ball in high weeds |
Songs from the workbench |
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Seldom Scene |
Easy ride from good times to the blues |
Different Roads |
Rebel |
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Seldom Scene |
I haven’t got the right to love you |
Different Roads |
Rebel |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Philadelphia Lawyer |
Bluegrass Reunion Style |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Heartbreak Mountain |
Bluegrass Reunion Style |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Matterhorn |
25 Years |
Rebel |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Two Little Boys |
25 Years |
Rebel |
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Trey Hinsley |
Tucson |
Single |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Looking at the world through a windshield |
Heroes and Friends |
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Jimmy Martin |
Drink up and go home |
Fifty Golden Years |
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Jimmy Martin |
Goodbye Old Pal |
Jimmy Martin’s Greatest BG Hits |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Castle Rock Turnpike |
Single |
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Rick Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder |
Highway 40 Blues |
The High Notes |
Skaggs |
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The Steeldrivers |
If it hadn’t been for love |
The Steeldrivers |
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Tony Rice |
Carolina Star |
Sings and plays Bluegrass |
Rounder |
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Tony Rice |
Cold on the Shoulder |
Sings Gordon Lightfoot |
Rounder |
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The Grass Cats |
Pill or Potion |
Home to Carolina |
New Time |
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Eddie Ortego & Lisa Kay Abrams |
Molly |
Old, Old House |
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Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out |
Pretty little girl from Galax |
Prime Tyme |
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Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
I saw those golden stairs |
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
I’ll never shed another tear |
Songs of Flatt & Scruggs |
Rounder |
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The Traveling McCourys |
Lonesome, On’ry and Mean |
The Traveling McCourys |
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Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band |
That High Lonesome Sound |
New Moon Rising |
Sugar Hill |
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The Cox Family |
Another Lonesome Morning |
Beyond the City |
Rounder |
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The Grascals |
Band in the River |
Single |
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
Carolina in the Pines |
Once and for Always |
Sugar Hill |
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Dolly Parton |
Rocky Top |