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.
Weekly Playlist
PineCone Playlist: January 26th, 2025
Artist | Song Title | Album Title | Record Label |
Tom Adams | Bluegrass Breakdown | Right Hand Man | Rounder |
Bluegrass Album Band | Blueridge Cabin Home | The Bluegrass Album Vol 1 | Rounder |
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder | Little Maggie | Bluegrass Hits | |
Alison Krauss & Union Station | Don’t Follow Me | Too late to cry | Rounder |
Bill Monroe | Gotta Travel On | ||
J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys | Helen | Bluegrass Holiday | Rebel |
Daniel Grindstaff | Looking at the world through a windshield | Heroes and Friends | |
James King | Crazy Heart | Lonesome and then some | Rounder |
Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band | One Way | New Moon Rising | Sugar Hill |
Country Gazette | Don’t let your deal go down | ||
Williamson Branch | Southern Lights | Single | |
The Boxcars | Cornelia | It’s just a road | |
Po Ramblin Boys | Wanderers like me | Single | |
Lost & Found | Mountain Folks | Final Chapter | Rebel |
Lonesome River Band | Mary Ann | Talkin’ to Myself | Rebel |
Larry Cordle | 67 Chevy Malibu | Took down and put up | |
Jimmy Martin | Goodbye Old Pal | Jimmy Martin’s Greatest Hits | |
John McCuen | Togary Mountain | Will the Circle be Unbroken | |
John Duffy | Say won’t you be mine | Always in Style | Sugar Hill |
Dolly Parton | Train, Train | ||
Diamond Creek | Walk softly on this heart of mine | Where do I go from here | |
II Generation | Hide your love away | II Generation | |
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | I’ve heard these words before | News is Out | Sugar Hill |
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out | Pretty Little Girl from Galax | Prime Tyme | |
Sideline | I’m in Tennessee | Single | |
Nixon, Blevins & Gage | More pretty girls than one | Pickin’ on Doc | Clover |
Carl Jackson & John Starling | Lonesome Dove | Spring Training | Sugar Hill |
Dailey & Vincent | Class of 57 | Sings the Statler Brothers | Rounder |
Dan Tyminski & Milly Tuttle | Church Street Blues | One more before you go | Rounder |
Daniel Grindstaff | Finnland | Heroes and Friends | |
Darin & Brooke Aldridge | The Price I Pay | Single | |
Del McCoury | If you talk in your sleep | Single | McCoury |
Jim Hurst | Oh, Lonesome Me | From the ground up | |
Longview | Hills and Home | Lessons in Stone | Rounder |
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | Fire ball mail | Foggy Mountain Banjo | Sony |
Larry Sparks | I’m bound to ride | Best of Larry Sparks | Rebel |
Tony Trishka & Billy Strings | Browns Ferry Blues | Single | |
Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion | Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party | 36 Years and Counting | |
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | A little bit of Bluegrass | A little bit of Bluegrass | Pinecastle |
Sturgill Simpson | Sitting here without you | Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 | |
The Grass Cats | I know it’s not me | Desperate Times | New Time |
Sam Bush | The Ballad of Stringbean & Estelle | Circle around me | |
Sam Bush | Radio John | Radio John | |
Alecia Nugent | I cried all the way to Kentucky | A little girl, a big four lane | Rounder |
Alison Krauss & Union Station | Foolish Heart | Too late to cry | Rounder |
Tony Rice | Home from the Forest | Sings Gordon Lightfoot | Rounder |
Tony Rice | Why you been gone so long | Night Flyer | Rounder |
Seldom Scene | West Texas Wind | A Change of Scenery | Sugar Hill |
Seldom Scene | Little Georgia Rose | Act 3 | Rebel |