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 Bluegrass Show Playlist: August 31, 2025
Artist | Song Title | Album Title | Record Label |
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | Sally Ann | Bill Monroe’s Ol Mandolin | Pinecastle |
Flatt & Scruggs | Cora is Gone | Complete Mercury Sessions | Mercury |
Bluegrass Album Band | Devil in Disguise | CA Connection | Rounder |
Bill Monroe | My Little Georgia Rose | In the Pines | MCA |
Seldom Scene | Old Train | Different Roads | Rebel |
Rhonda Vincent | Wagon Wheel | Destinations and Fun Places | Upper Mgmt. |
Kevin Denny | Gulf Shore Line | (same) | |
Sideline | Crash Course in the Blues | Ups, Downs, No Name Towns | Mountain Home |
Red Camel Collective | Daughter of the Stars | Red Camel Collective | Pinecastle |
Alison Kraus | Granite Mills | Arcadia | Down the Road |
Grass Cats | I Know It’s Not Me | Desperate Times | New Time |
Dale Anne Bradley | Jackson, TN | (single) | Pinecastle |
Billy Gilman/Rhonda Vincent | That’s Bluegrass to Me | Delta Queen | |
Alison Kraus | Richmond on the James | Arcadia | Down the Road |
Greg Blake | Bluefield Mountain Wind | (single) | Turnberry |
Caroline Owens | You’ve Still Got It | (single) | Billy Blue |
Kenny & Amanda Smith | Million Lonely Days | (single) | Farm Boy |
Grascals | Me & John & Paul | Bluegrass No. 1 | Rounder |
Bob Miner/Rhonda Vincent | Listening to the Rain | (single) | Billy Blue |
Billy Gilman | Waylon | Delta Queen | |
Jason Carter/Michael Cleveland | With a Vamp in the Middle | Carter & Cleveland | Fiddle Man |
Becky Buller | Reach | (single) | Dark Shadow |
Daniel Grindstaff | Angel Dream | (single) | Bonfire |
Joe Mullins | Time Adds Up If You’re Lucky | Billy Blue | |
Junior Sisk | Sweeter Than Tupelo Honey | (single) | Turnberry |
Larry Cordle | Yardbird | Songs From East KY | |
Stephen & Jana Mougin | The Wire | (singles) | Dark Shadow |
James King | Echo Mountain | Bluegrass Story Teller | Rounder |
Becky Buller | Ride on By | (single) | Dark Shadow |
Danny Burns | Blue Ridge Blue | Southern Sky | Pinecastle |
James King | Crazy Heart | Lonesome and Then Some | Rounder |
Jerry Salley | What Love Looks Like Today | The Songwriter | Very Jerry |
Mike Mitchell | Little Mountain Home | (single) | Mountain Fever |
Nixon Blevins & Gage | Greenville Trestle High | Pick One For Me | Clover |
Tony Rice | Cold on the Shoulder | (same0 | Rounder |
Balsam Range | Trains I Missed | (same) | Mountain Home |
Alison Kraus | Every Time You Say Goodbye | (same) | Rounder |
Zoe & Cloyd | The Road That Might Have Been | (single) | Organic |
Darrell Webb | More Life | ||
Doc Watson | Going Down That Road Feeling Bad | Elementary Doc Watson | |
East Nash Grass | Hill Country Highway | (single) |