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: October 19, 2025
| Artist | Song Title | Album Title | Record Label |
| The Country Gentlemen | Breaking it Down | The Award-Winning Country Gentlemen | |
| Billy Strings | Leaning on a traveling song | Highway Prayer | |
| IIIrd Tyme Out | Blue Ridge Mountain Memories | John & Mary | Rounder |
| Larry Stephenson | Yesterday’s Gone | Weep Little Willow | Pinecastle |
| Clyde Mattocks | Rebecca | Hugging the Hound | |
| The Osborne Brothers | Rocky Top | High Lonesome | MCA |
| Red Camel Collective | Last time I saw him | ||
| Hammertowne | Next to Nothing | ||
| Alison Krauss & Union Station | North Side Gal | Arcadia | |
| Jason Carter/Michael Cleveland | With a vamp in the middle | Carter and Cleveland | |
| Greg Blake | Bluefield Mountain Wind | Single | |
| J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys | Dark Hollow | Bluegrass Holiday | Rebel |
| James Monroe | Love, please come home | Bean Blossom | MCA |
| Jim Easnes | In his arms | Tru Bluegrass Gospel | |
| Garrett Newton | Ain’t nobody gonna miss me | Young Heart, Old Soul | |
| Longview | I’ve never been so lonesome | Longview | Rounder |
| John McCuen | Togary Mountain | Will the Circle be Unbroken | |
| Seldom Scene | Georgia Rose | Live at the Cellar Door | Rebel |
| Russell Johnson | Those Old Tarheels | ||
| Russell Johnson | Strength of a woman | Anytime, Anyplace but Only You | New Time |
| Lou Reid | When it Rains | When it Rains | Sugar Hill |
| Lou Reid | Ain’t it Funny | When it Rains | Sugar Hill |
| Ricky Skaggs | Halfway Home Café | History of the Future | Skaggs |
| Ricky Skaggs | Little Maggie | Bluegrass Hits | |
| The Chapmans | Old Man in the Shanty | Follow Me | Pinecastle |
| The Chapmans | Don’t let me cross over | Follow Me | Pinecastle |
| Alecia Nugent | But I do | Alecia Nugent | Rounder |
| Alecia Nugent | Breaking New Ground | A little girl, a big Highway | Rounder |
| Charlie Sizemore | That’s how I got to Memphis | Heartache Looking for a Home | |
| Charlie Sizemore | Allison’s Band | Heartache Looking for a Home | |
| Dailey & Vincent | I’ll go to my grave | Sings the Statler Brothers | Rounder |
| Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | Lonesome Road Blues | Foggy Mountain Banjo | Sony |
| New Grass Revival | Love someone like me | Best of the New Grass Revival | |
| Nixon, Blevins and Gage | Brown Mountain Lights | Picking with Friends | Clover |
| The Grascals | Saro Jane | ||
| Ronnie Bowman | Rye Whisky | Starting Over | |
| Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion | Bluegrass Breakdown | Live | |
| Berline Crary & Hickman | They don’t play George Jones on MTV | Now They are Four | Rounder |
| Dave Evans | Drink up and go home | ||
| Darin & Brooke Aldridge | The Price I pay | Single | |
| Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Little Mountain Church | Choice Picks | |
| Dolly Parton | Train, Train | ||
| Don Rigsby | Mary Jane, Won’t you be mine | Kentucky Troubadour | |
| East Nash Grass | Hill County Highway | All God’s Children | |
| Gena Britt | A little bit of you | Single | Pinecastle |
| J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys | Helen | Bluegrass Holiday | Rebel |
| Kody Norris Show | Ruby Jane | High Falutin’ Hillbilly | |
| Reno Brothers | Kentucky Gold | My Dixieland and Dixie Too | |
| Tony Rice | Church Street Blues | Church Street Blues | Rounder |