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 3rd, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Tom Adams |
Little Maggie |
Right Hand Man |
Rounder |
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Joe Mullns |
Black & Decker Blues |
Lovin’, Fightin’, Losin’ Sleep |
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Laura Orshaw |
Hank |
Solitary Diamond |
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Roland White |
If You’re Ever Going to Love Me |
Tribute to the Kentucky Colonels |
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Ricky Skaggs |
How mountain girls can love |
Live at the Charleston Music Hall |
Skaggs |
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Ronnie and Rob McCoury |
Another Place, Another Time |
Ronnie and Rob McCoury |
Rounder |
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The Lonesome River Band |
Cabin of Love |
Carrying the Tradition |
Rebel |
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The Osborne Brothers |
Rocky Top |
50 Years of Bluegrass Hits |
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Steve Gulley |
Leaving Crazy Town |
Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle |
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Nashville Bluegrass Band |
Blue Train |
Choice Picks |
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The McPeak Brothers |
Lost River |
Classic Bluegrass |
Rebel |
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Junior Sisk |
In Another Man’s Arms |
The Heart of a Song |
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IIIrd Tyme Out |
Blue Ridge Mountain Memories |
John & Mary |
Rounder |
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Lou Reid & Carolina |
Amanda Lynn |
My Own Set of Rules |
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Bela Fleck |
Whitewater |
Bluegrass Class of 1990 |
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The Grass Cats |
Carolina Blue |
A Good Way to Get the Blues |
New Time |
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Larry Sparks |
Letter from my darling |
Lonesome and Blue |
Rebel |
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Merle Haggard |
Holding things together |
The Bluegrass Sessions |
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
Sally Ann |
Foggy Mountain Banjo |
Sony |
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The Johnson Mountain Boys |
Duncan & Brady |
Blue Diamond |
Rounder |
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J.D. Crowe & The New South |
Grandpa’s Shoes |
Come on Down |
Rounder |
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Authentic Unlimited |
Cost of Living |
Single |
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Rhonda Vincent |
Cheatin’ kind of life |
Ragin’ Live |
Rounder |
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Seldom Scene |
Boots of Spanish Leather |
Scene it All |
Sugar Hill |
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Jody King |
Jet Airliner |
Single |
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Nixon, Blevins and Gage |
Brown Mountain Lights |
Picking with Friends |
Clover |
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Del McCoury & the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
Love please come home |
Will the Circle be Unbroken Vol 3 |
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Molly Tuttle |
Side Saddle |
Crooked Tree |
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Steve Day |
Come Back to Me in My Dreams |
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
Heart of a little Mountain Girl |
The Original Band |
Sugar Hill |
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Larry Cordle |
Yardbird |
Tales from East Kentucky |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
My Saro Jane |
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Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
A light in the window again |
Back to my roots |
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Sideline |
Back to Windy Mountain |
Breaks to the Edge |
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Eddie Ortego & Lisa Kay Abrans |
Old, Old House |
Old, Old House |
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Clyde Mattocks |
Rebecca |
Hugging the Hound |
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Trey Hensley |
Tucson |
Single |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Looking at the world through a windshield |
Heroes and Friends |
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Billy Strings |
Richard Petty |
Highway Prayer |
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The Grass Cats |
Johnson’s Love |
9 Lives and More |
New Time |
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Ronnie Bowman |
Rye Whiskey |
Starting Over |
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Josh Williams |
We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it |
Down Home |
Pinecastle |
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Jimmy Martin |
Hit Parade of Love |
You don’t know my mind |
Rounder |
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Seldom Scene |
He rode all the way to Texas |
Live at the Cellar Door |
Rebel |
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J.D. Crowe & the New South |
Sugar Coated Love |
Live in Japan |
Rounder |
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Charlie Albertson |
My Life’s gonna be Sunshine |
Single |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Legend of the Rebel Soldier |
The Award-Winning Country Gentlemen |
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Byron Berline/Vince Gill |
Rose of Old Kentucky |
Fiddle and a song |
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Tony Rice |
Church Street Blues |
Sings Gordon Lightfoot |
Rounder |
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Tony Rice |
Home from the Forest |
Manzanita |
Rounder |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
My sweet blue eyed darling |
Bluegrass Reunion Style |
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Alecia Nugent |
But I do |
Alecia Nugent |
Rounder |
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The Kody Norris Show |
Good Ol USA |
single |