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 12th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Jerry Douglas |
Randy Lynn Rag |
Everything’s gonna work out fine |
Rounder |
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Larry Sparks |
I’d lie to be a train |
Best of Larry Sparks |
Rebel |
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J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys |
Will you be satisfied that way |
Bluegrass Holiday |
Rebel |
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Darin & Brooke Aldridge |
The Price I Pay |
Single |
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Lonesome River Band |
Square Dance Friday Night |
Single |
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Kody Norris Show |
Ruby Jean |
Highfalutin’ Hillbilly |
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The Country Gentlemen |
Fox on the Run |
World’s Greatest Show |
Sugar Hill |
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The McPeak Brothers |
Lost River |
Classic Bluegrass |
Rebel |
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Marty Raybon |
Down the Road |
Full Circle |
Doobie Shea |
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Lou Reid |
Absence makes the heart grow fonder |
When it Rains |
Sugar Hill |
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Dale Ann Bradley |
LA International Airport |
Things she couldn’t get over |
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IIIrd Tyme Out |
Little White Church |
Round III at the Mac |
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Larry Cordle |
Stray Cat |
Songs from the Workbench |
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Lost & Found |
14 Carat Mind |
It’s about time |
Rebel |
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Junior Sisk |
Train without a track |
Heartaches and Dreams |
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Adam Steffey |
Cloudy Days |
Here to Stay |
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Alecia Nugent |
Think of what you’ve done |
Alecia Nugent |
Rounder |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Castle Rock Turnpike |
Single |
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Trey Hinsley |
Can’t outrun the Blues |
Can’t outrun the Blues |
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Vince Gill |
Give me the Highway |
Little Brother |
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IIIrd Tyme Out |
Rose of my Heart |
John and Mary |
Rounder |
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Del McCoury |
If you talk in your sleep |
Single |
McCoury |
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Eddie and Lisa |
The Old Home Town |
Old, Old House |
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The Grass Cats |
A Good Way to get the Blues |
A Good Way to get the Blues |
New Time |
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Billy Strings |
Know it all |
Renewal |
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Bill Monroe/Jim & Jesse |
Mighty Dark to Travel |
Bluegrass 87 |
MCA |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Lonesome without you |
Live |
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II Generation |
Hide your love away |
II Generation |
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Josh Williams |
We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it |
Down Home |
Pinecastle |
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J.D. Crowe & the New South |
Rose colored glasses |
Live in Japan |
Rounder |
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Daryl Mosely |
She knew it all |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Russell Johnson |
Those Old Tarheels |
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
Cumberland Gap |
Foggy Mountain Banjo |
Sony |
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New Grass Revival |
This heart of mine |
Fly through the Country |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Just a bowl of butterbeans |
Pickin’ with Friends |
Clover |
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Ray Edwards |
My name is Jimmy Martin |
Portrait of a Bluegrass Songwriter |
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Jimmy Martin |
Free Born Man |
Bean Blossom |
MCA |
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Dailey & Vincent |
Bed of Roses |
Sings the Statler Brothers |
Rounder |
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Buddy Melton |
The Ninety and the Nine |
Single |
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Byron Berline |
Rose of Old Kentucky |
Fiddle and a Song |
Sugar Hill |
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The Grass Cats |
A Woman’s Love |
The Old School Road |
New Time |
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Larry Cordle |
Lost as a ball in high weeds |
Songs from the Workbench |
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Luke Shamblin |
North on 79 |
Single |
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Seldom Scene |
Rawhide |
Live at the Cellar Door |
Rebel |
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Seldom Scene |
West Texas Wind |
A Change of Scenery |
Sugar Hill |
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Tony Rice Unit |
Manzanita |
Manzanita |
Rounder |
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Tony Rice Unit |
Old Train |
Manzanita |
Rounder |