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: June 29th, 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 | My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mtns | Volume 4 | Rounder |
Shaddy Grove Band | 40 Years of Trouble | Mulberry Moon | |
Michael Cleveland/Jason Carter | Outrun the Rain | Carter & Cleveland | Fiddle Man |
Roxboro Connection | That’s the Sound of a Breaking Heart | Making the Connection | |
Becky Bull/Jim Lauderdale | Wall Around Your Heart | Muddy Water | Dark Shadow |
Blue Highway | Lonesome Pine | (same) | |
Amanda Cook | Last Road Going Home | Restless Soul | Mountain Fever |
Woody Platt | Toe the Line | Far Away with You | Compass |
Yonder Mountain String Band | Beside Myself | Get Yourself Outside | Frog Pad |
Dale Anne Bradley | Jackson, TN | (single) | Pinecastle |
Sister Sadie | All Will Be Well | (single) | Pinecastle |
The Dillads | Dooley | There Is a Time | |
Kody Norris Show | Auctioneer | High Falutin’ Hillbilly | Rebel |
Don Rigsby | These Golder Fields of Burley | Hillbilly Heartaches | Rebel |
Kody Norris Show | Blue Ain’t the Word | High Falutin’ Hillbilly | Rebsel |
Carolina Owens | You’ve Still Got It | (single) | Billy Blue |
Dan Tyminski | Whiskey Drinking Man | Live From the Ryman | 8 Track |
Sideline | I’m in Tennessee | (single) | Mountain Home |
Patty Loveless | You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive | Mountain Soul | |
Becky Buller | Reach | (single) | Dark Shadow |
IIIrd Tyme Out | Across the Miles | Cream of the Croop | Rounder |
Sister Sadie | All Will Be Well | (single) | Mountain Home |
New Town | Cold Iron Door | New Town | |
Yonder Mountain String Band | No Leg Left | Get Yourself Outside | Frog Pad |
Greg Blake | Bluefield Mountain Wind | (single) | Turnberry |
Grass Cats | Bluegrass Man | New Times | |
Alison Kraus | Granite Mills | Arcadia | Down the Road |
Alison Kraus | Looks Like the End of the Road | Arcadia | Down the Roadd |
Alison Kraus | North Side Gal | Arcadia | Down the Road |
Alison Kraus | Richmond on the James | Arcadia | Down the Road |
Joe Mullins | The Good Ole Days | Lovin’, Fightin’, Losin’ Sleep | Billy Blue |
Luke Shamblin | Crime at Quiet Dell | (single) | |
Ashby Frank | The Bug | (single) | Mountain Home |
Mike Miklos | Georgia on a Fast Train | Pocono Joe | |
Yonder Mountain String Band | Into the Fire | Get Yourself Outside | Frog Pad |
Junior Sisk | Sweeter Than Tupelo Honey | (single) | Turnberry |
Aaron McDaris | Be Good to My Little Baby Girl | Last Time Around | |
Darin & Brooke Aldridge | My Favorite Picture of You | Talk of the Town | Billy Blue |
Al Batten | Heart Break Mountain | Bluegrass, Reunion Style | |
Sturgill Simpson | Life of Sin | Cuttin’ Grass | High Top Mtn. |
James King | I’m in Tennessee | (single) | Mountain Home |
King James Boys | Ready & Waitin’ | Get a Transfer | |
Alan Bibey & Grasstowne | Gonna Rise and Shine | (same) | Pinecastle |