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 14th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Walter Hensley |
East Virginia Blues |
Picking on Newgrass |
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The Traveling McCourys |
Lonesome, On’ry and Mean |
The Traveling McCourys |
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Retro 78 Bluegrass |
Tall Dark Stranger |
Retro 78 Bluegrass |
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Lonesome River Band |
Sitting on Top of the World |
Carrying the Tradition |
Rebel |
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Continental Divide |
New Highway |
Continental Divide |
Pinecastle |
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Larry Sparks |
Way back when |
Way back when |
Rebel |
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Jerry Stuart |
Rocky Run |
Rocky Run |
County |
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Jim & Jesse |
Heading West |
Music among Friends |
Rounder |
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New Vintage |
Down in the Willow Garden |
No time for the blues |
Pinecastle |
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Newfound Road |
That’s how I got to Memphis |
Live at Down Home |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
Letter to my Darlin’ |
California Connection |
Rounder |
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Lou Reed & Carolina |
God’s Front Porch |
Sounds like Heaven to me |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Sea Stories |
Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 |
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Larry Cordle |
Yardbird |
Tales from East Kentucky |
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Alan Munde |
Hot Burrito Breakdown |
Festival Favorites Revisited |
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Alecia Nugent |
I cried all the way to Kentucky |
A little girl, a big four lane |
Rounder |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station |
Wild Bill Jones |
Down from the Mountain |
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J.D. Crowe & the New South |
I’m not broke |
The World’s Greatest Show |
Sugar Hill |
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Luke Shamblin |
North on 79 Master |
single |
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Del McCoury |
Loggin’ Man |
Celebrating 50 Years |
McCoury |
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
My little girl from Tennessee |
The Complete Mercury Sessions |
Mercury |
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Eddie Ortego & Lisa Kay Abrams |
Old, Old House |
Old, Old House |
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Nixon, Blevins & Gage |
Doc’s Guitar |
Pick another one, son |
Clover |
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Trey Hensley |
Tucson |
Single |
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Constant Change |
Old Dangerfield |
Evolving |
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Billy Strings |
Know it all |
Renewal |
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The Traveling McCourys |
Gas and Oil |
Single |
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The Virginia Squires |
Country Song |
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The Grass Cats |
Love me as hard as you hurt me |
A good way to get the blues |
New Time |
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Darin & Brooke Aldridge |
The Price I pay |
Single |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Castle Rock Turnpike |
Single |
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The Seldom Scene |
Mean Mother Blues |
20th Anniversary Concert |
Sugar Hill |
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Rhonda Vincent |
City of New Orleans |
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Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion |
Devil and the farmer’s wife |
Instrumentals and Insanities |
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Bill Monroe |
Uncle Pen |
Bean Blossom |
MCA |
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Clyde Mattocks |
Rebecca |
Hugging the Hound |
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Tony Rice |
Likes of you |
Plays and Sings Bluegrass |
Rounder |
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Tony Rice |
I’ve waited as long as I can |
Plays and Sings Bluegrass |
Rounder |
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Molly Tuttle |
Crooked Tree |
Crooked Tree |
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Marty Raybon |
Next to you, Next to me |
Full Circle |
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Ashby Frank |
Knee Deep in Bluegrass |
Single |
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Longview |
Hills and Home |
Lessons in Stone |
Rounder |
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
Don’t cross the river |
The Original Band |
Sugar Hill |
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
Yellow River |
The Original Band |
Sugar Hill |
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Jaelee Roberts |
Looking for Yourself |
Looking for yourself |