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: June 7th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Billy Strings |
Peartree |
Me and Dad |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Blue Ridge Cabin Home |
Foggy Mountain Jamboree |
County |
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Hot Rize |
Just Like You |
Untold Stories |
Sugar Hill |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
Letter From My Darling |
CA Connection |
Rounder |
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Lonesome Rive Band |
Hobo Blues |
Choice Picks |
IBMA |
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Shawn Camp |
Sis Draper |
Ghost of Sis Draper |
Skeeter Bit |
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Larry Sparks |
Way Back When |
(same) |
Rebel |
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Balsam Range |
Trains I Missed |
(same) |
Mountain Home |
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Authentic Unlimited |
Cost of Living |
Single |
Edisonic |
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Appalachian Road Show |
Della Jane’s Heart |
(same) |
Billy Blue |
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Hannah Harper |
String Cheese |
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East Nash Grass |
Hill Country Highway |
All God’s Children |
Mountain Fever |
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Joe Mullins |
Black and Decker Blues |
Lovin’, Fightin’, Losin’ Sleep |
Billy Blue |
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Lorraine Jordan & Country Grass |
Friday Night Blues |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Red Camel Collective |
Walk Out in the Rain |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Red Camel Collective |
In the Mexican Sun |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Trey Hensley |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Irene Kelley |
Bluegrass Radio |
Benny’s TV Repair |
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J. D. Crowe & New South |
Summer Wages |
J. D. Crowe & New South |
Rounder |
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Rebekah Speers |
Needle in the Heart of WV |
Single |
Huckleberry |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Death of John Henry |
Daniel Grindstaff & Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Grascals |
Bend in the River |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Mountain Home |
Single |
Mountain Fever |
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Luke Shamblin |
North on 79 |
Single |
Luke Shamblin |
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Olivia Jo |
Oh Virginia |
Single |
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Creech’s Mill with Keisha Bryant |
Climbing Up That Mountain |
Single |
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Larry Cordle |
This Weary Road |
Single |
Mighty Cord |
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Trey Hensley |
Tucson |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
Pinecastle |
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Grass Cats |
Next to Nothing |
9 Lives & More |
New Time |
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Ed Snodderly/Tim O’Brien |
When Doc Watson Came to Johnson City |
Single |
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Hugh Moore |
Lock Down Bluebell |
Single |
OMS |
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Hannah Harper |
Ghost in the House |
Single |
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Greg Blake/Becky Buller |
Love Found Me |
Single |
Turnberry |
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Grascals |
Memories I Ain’t’ Missing |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Starlette & Big John |
Till the End of the Road |
Straight 58 |
Mountain Fever |
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Trey Hensley/Steve Wariner |
One White Line at a Time |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
Pinecastle |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Long White Line |
Cuttin’ Grass |
High Top Mtn. |
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Po’ Ramblin’ Boys |
Bottom of a Glass |
Single |
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IIIrd Tyme Out |
Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye |
It’s About Tyme |
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Mike Mitchell |
Little Delilah |
Single |
Mountain Home |