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: July 26th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Jerry Douglas |
Cincinnati Rag |
Everything’s gonna work out fine |
Rounder |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Ruby |
Single |
Rounder |
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Johnson Mountain Boys |
Our Last Goodbye |
The Johnson Mountain Boys |
Rounder |
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The Grascals |
Saro Jane |
The Grascals |
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Mickey Harris |
Tractor for Sale |
Things that I like |
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
Just Ain’t |
The Essential Flat & Scruggs |
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Authentic Unlimited |
Cost of Living |
Single |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Sitting Here Without You |
Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 |
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Country Gentlemen |
Traveling Kind |
The Country Gentlemen |
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Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out |
Little Magnolia |
Prime Tyme |
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Ricky Skaggs |
Highway 40 Blues |
The High Notes |
Skaggs |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Another day, another dollar |
Every time you say goodbye |
Rounder |
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Larry Cordle |
Call me the breeze |
Lonesome Skynyrd Time |
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Billy Strings |
Know it all |
Renewal |
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Seldom Scene |
Gardens of Memories |
20th Anniversary Concert |
Sugar Hill |
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Nashville Bluegrass Band |
The Boys are back in Town |
The Boys are back in Town |
Sugar Hill |
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John McCuen |
Togary Mountain |
Will the Circle be Unbroken |
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Trey Hinsley |
Tucson |
Can’t outrun the Blues |
Pinecastle |
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Eddie and Lisa |
Molly |
Old, Old House |
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Charlie Sizemore |
No lawyers in Heaven |
Heartache looking for a Home |
Rebel |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
My sweet blue-eyed darlin’ |
Bluegrass Reunion Style |
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Adam Steffey |
Let me fall |
One more time for the road |
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Kody Norris Show |
Ruby Jane |
High Falutin’ Hillbilly |
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Lost and Found |
Wild Mountain Flowers for Mary |
Classic Bluegrass |
Rebel |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Heaven’s Bright Shore |
Two Highways |
Rounder |
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Daryl Mosley |
She knew it all |
Single |
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The Grass Cats |
I’ve got my baby on my mind |
The Old School Road |
New Time |
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Lonesome River Band |
Money in the Bank |
Carrying the Tradition |
Rebel |
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
Traveling down the blue road |
Once and For Always |
Sugar Hill |
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Larry Sparks |
Smokey Mountain Memories |
Classic Bluegrass |
Rebel |
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Larry Sparks |
Rock Hearts |
Lonesome and Blue |
Rebel |
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J.D. Crowe & the New South |
White Freightliner |
Come on down to my world |
Rounder |
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Larry Cordle |
67 Chevy Malibu |
Took down and put up |
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Clyde Mattocks |
I wonder what you see in your dreams |
Hugging the Hound |
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Ashby Frank |
Knee Deep in Bluegrass |
Single |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Shady Grove |
Pickin’ on Doc |
Clover |
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Lou Reid |
On Track Man |
When it rains |
Sugar Hill |
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Lou Reid & Carolina |
In Despair |
My own set of rules |
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Tony Rice |
Why you been gone so long |
Sings and Plays Bluegrass |
Rounder |
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Tony Rice |
Thunderclouds of love |
Sings and Plays Bluegrass |
Rounder |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Sea Stories |
Cuttin’ Grass |
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James King |
She took his breath away |
The Bluegrass Storyteller |
Rounder |
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Seldom Scene |
West Texas Wind |
A Change of Scenery |
Sugar Hill |
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Seldom Scene |
Rose of Old Kentucky |
15th Anniversary Celebration |
Sugar Hill |
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Jason Carter |
Highway 52 |
Lowdown Hoedown |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Castle Rock Turnpike |
Single |
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Country Gentlemen |
The Legend of the Rebel Soldier |
The Award-Winning Country Gentlemen |
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New Grass Revival |
Can’t Stop Now |
The Best of the New Grass Revival |
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Dan Tyminski-Molly Tuttle |
Church Street Blues |
One More Before You Go |
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Vince Gill |
All Prayed Up |
Little Brother |