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: November 20th, 2022
Artist | Song Title | Album Title | Record Label |
Tony Rice | Stoney Creek | Tony Rice | Rounder |
Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina | Don’t Pass Me By | Carolina Blue | Rebel |
Billy Strings | Red Daisey | Renewal | |
Pam Gadd | Bluegrass Survival | Single | |
John Duffey | She’s More to Be Pitied | Always In Style | |
Country Gentlemen | Over The Hills to The Poorhouse | 25 Years | Rebel |
Lonesome Standard Time | Lonesome Standard Time | Lonesome Standard Time | Sugar Hill |
Adam Steffey | Cloudy Days | Here to Stay | |
J.D. Crowe & The New South | I’ll Stay Around | The World’s Greatest Show | Sugar Hill |
Kenny & Amanda Smith | Everything To Me | Single | |
The Grascals | Me And John and Paul | Bluegrass Hits | |
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | She’s Walking Through My Memory | News Is Out | Sugar Hil |
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | Take Me in Your Lifeboat | The Complete Mercury Sessions | Mercury |
Marty Raybon | Slowly | The Back Forty | |
Rhonda Vincent | Is The Grass Any Bluer | The Storm Still Rages | Rounder |
The Osborne Brothers | Pain In My Heart | Once More | Sugar Hill |
Walter Hensley | East Virginia Blues | Pickin’ On Newgrass | |
New Grass Revival | Can’t Stop Now | Best Of the New Grass Revival | |
Old & In The Way | Old & In the Way | Old & In the Way | |
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | I Cannot Bring Them Back | I Can Go to Them | |
Mickey Harris | Heartbreakin’ Old Achin’ Blues | Things I Like | |
Al Batten & The Bluegrass Reunion | Heartbreak Mountain | Bluegrass Reunion Style | |
Alan Bibey | Gordon Mcgregor | Mandolin Artistry Vol 1 | |
Alison Krauss & Union Station | Endless Highway | I’ve Got That Old Feeling | Rounder |
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Living Like There Is No Tomorrow | Live In Prague | |
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Levin’ On Her Mind | Live In Prague | |
Lonesome River Band | Hey Day | Hey Day | |
Lonesome River Band | Cabin Of Love | Carrying The Tradition | Rebel |
Seldom Scene | Rose Of Old Kentucky | 15th Anniversary Celebration | Sugar Hill |
Seldom Scene | Satin’s Choir | A Change of Scenery | Sugar Hill |
Clyde Mattocks | Huggin The Hound | Hugging The Hound | |
High Fidelity | The Hills and Home | Hills And Home | |
Iiird Tyme Out | I Won’t Be Around | The Best Durn Ride | |
Iiird Tyme Out | Grandpa’s Mandolin | ||
Dell Mccoury | Rain And Snow | Celebrating 50 Years | Mccoury |
Del Mccoury | Check To Check with The Blues | A Deeper Shade of Blue | Mccoury |
Volume Five | Thorn Tree Shade | Run | |
Volume Five | When Karma Comes Calling | Single | |
Larry Cordle | A Visit with An Uncle | Took Down and Put Up | |
Larry Cordle | Lost As a Ball In High Weeds | Songs From the Workbench | |
Nixon, Blevins & Gage | Carolina Pig Pickin’ Night | Picking With Friends | Clover |
Nixon, Blevins & Gage | Brown Mountain Lights | Picking With Friends | Clover |
Tony Rice | Girl From the North Country | Sings Gordon Lightfoot | Rounder |
Tony Rice | Bitter Green | Sings Gordon Lightfoot | Rounder |
The Isaacs | Another Soldier Down | ||
The Isaacs | He Ain’t Never |