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 5th, 2026
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Artist |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Record Label |
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Ben Green |
Star Spangled Banner |
United We Stand |
Pinecastle |
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Flatt & Scruggs |
Blue Ridge Cabin Home |
Foggy Mountain Jamboree |
County |
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Bluegrass Album Band |
Rough and Rocky |
Volume 4` |
Rounder |
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Billy Stings |
Way Downtown |
Me & Dad |
Rounder |
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Eric Strickland |
Black and White |
Black & White & Blue |
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Shawn Camp |
Sis Draper |
Ghost of Sis Draper |
Skeeter Bit |
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Danny Paisley |
Bluegrass State of Mind |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Doyle Lawson |
More Behind the Picture Than the Wall |
(same) |
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Authentic Unlimited |
Cost of Living |
Single |
Edisonic |
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IIIrd Tyme Out |
John & Mary |
Bluegrassed |
Cracker Barrel |
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Red Camel Collective |
In the Mexican Sun |
Single |
Pinecastle |
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Front Range |
One Beautiful Day |
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Grass Cat |
Copperhead Road |
9 Lives and More |
New Time |
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Lorraine Jordan & Country Grass |
They Call It Bluegrass |
Bill Monroe’s Ol Mandolin |
Pinecastle |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
Death of John Henry |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Grascals |
Bend in the River |
Single |
Billy Blue |
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Trey Hensley |
Can’t Outrun the Blues |
(same) |
Pinecastle |
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Ronnie Bowman |
Rye Whiskey |
Starting Over |
Sugar Hill |
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Blue Highway |
Is Now the Time |
Single |
Down the Road |
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IIIrd Tyme Out |
Blue Ridge Memories |
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Hannah Harper |
Grandpa, Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Ole Days |
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Interview with Becky Buller |
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Becky Bulley/Ned Luberecki |
Fiddling Dan |
Take Five |
Dark Shadow |
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Becky Buller/Jim Lauderdale |
Wall Around Your Heart |
Songs That Sing Me |
Dark Shadow |
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Becky Buller |
Ride on By |
Songs That Sing Me |
Dark Shadow |
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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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Highway 58 Bluegrass |
Willie Roy |
Highway 58 Bluegrass |
Highway 58 |
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Hot Rize |
Just Like You |
Untold Stories |
Sugar Hill |
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Hugh Moore |
Lock Down Bluebell |
Single |
OMS |
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Southern Legacy |
Bill from Isonville |
Single |
Pinecstle |
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Carson Peters |
Walking Back to Georgia |
Hold on Heart |
Billy Blue |
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Irene Kelley |
Bluegrass Radio |
Benny’s TV Repair |
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Daniel Grindstaff |
We See Love |
Uptown Troubadours |
Bonfire |
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Luke Shamblin |
North on 79 |
Single |
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Larry Cordle |
This Weary Road |
Single |
Mighty Cord |
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Gibson Brothers |
Singing As We Rise |
Help My Brother |
Roundere3 |
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Blue Highway |
Is Now the Time |
Single |
Down the Road |
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Dwight Yoakam |
Listen |
Guitars, etc. |
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Nixon Blevins and Gage |
Blues Stay Away From Me |
Pickin’ On Doc |
Clover |
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Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra |
Goin’ Back to Harlan |
Migrants |
Hayde |
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IIIrd Tyme Out |
God Bless America |
Round III at the MAC |