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: April 19th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Tony Rice |
Gold Rush |
Church Street Blues |
Rounder |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
Lonesome Wind Blues |
Volume 4 |
Rounder |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Little Girl in Tennessee |
Complete Mercury Sessions |
Mercury |
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Larry Sparks |
Way Back When |
(same) |
Rebel |
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Tim O’Brien |
Last Train From Poor Valley |
Tim O’Brien Band |
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New Vintage |
L.A. County |
Sands of Time |
Pinecastle |
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Big Country Bluegrass |
Carry Me Back to the Bluegrass |
(same) |
Rebel |
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Authentic Unlimited |
Cost of Living |
(single) |
Edisonic |
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Michael Cleveland/Billy Strings |
For Your Love |
Love of the Game |
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Seldom Scene |
Breaking New Ground |
Change of Scenery |
Rebel |
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Seth Mulder |
Back to the Carolinas |
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Shawn Camp |
Sis Draper |
The Ghost of Sis Draper |
Skeeter Bit |
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Lorraine Jordan & Country Grass |
Friday Night Blues |
(single) |
Pinecastle |
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Appalachian Road Show |
Della Jane’s Heart |
(same) |
Billy Blue |
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Grascals/Dolly Parton |
Broken Angels |
(single) |
Billy Blue |
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Grass Cats |
7 Bridges Road/85 on 85 |
9 Lives and More |
New Time |
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Alison Kraus |
Richmond on the James |
Arcadia |
Down the Road |
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East Nash Grass |
Hill Country Highway |
God’s Children |
Mountain Fever |
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Luke Shamblin |
North on 79 |
(single) |
Luke Shamblin |
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Sister Sadie |
All Will Be Well |
(single) |
Mountain Home |
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Lonesome River Band |
Square Dance Friday Night |
(singles) |
Mountain Home |
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Joe Mullin |
Black and Decker Blues |
Lovin’, Fightin’, Losin’ Sleep |
Billy Blue |
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Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra |
Going Back to Harlan |
Migrants |
Hayde |
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Hugh Moore |
Hello City Limit |
(same) |
Folkways |
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Trey Hensley |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
(single) |
Pinecastle |
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Danny Paisley |
Bluegrass State of Mind |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Bryan Sutton/Doc Watson |
Working Man Blues |
(same) |
Mountain Home |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Mountain Home |
Love Songs, Torch and Bluegrass |
Mountain Fever |
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Sideline |
I’m in Tennessee |
(single) |
Mountain Home |
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Zoe and Cloyd |
The Road That Might Have Been |
Organic |
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Blue Highway |
Muddy Shoes |
(single) |
Down the Road |
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Troublesome Hollow |
Five Pounds of Possum |
The Possum Tapes |
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Jim & Jesse |
Are You Missing Me |
50 Years |
CMH |
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Nu-Blu |
A Little Good News Today |
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Al Batten |
Always Marry an Ugly Girl |
Instrumentals & Insanities |
Al Batten |
|
Greg Blake |
Love Found Me |
(single) |
Turnberry |
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Rebekah Speers |
Needle in the Heart of WV |
(single) |
Huckleberry |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Life of Sin |
Cuttin’ Grass |
HighTop Mtn. |
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Grascals |
Bend in the River |
(single) |
Billy Blue |
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Shelby Means |
Streets of Boulder |
(single) |
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Red Camel Collective |
Finding Your Way Home |
(single) |
Pinecastle |
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Nashville Bluegrass Band |
Last Time on the Road |
Sugar Hill |