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The Pinecone Bluegrass Show WQDR 94.7 FM, and Streaming on 947Qdr.Com Hosted by Tim Woodall May 24, 2015, 6 – 9 P.M The PineCone Bluegrass Show WQDR 94.7 FM, and streaming on 947qdr.com Hosted by Tim Woodall May 24, 2015, 6 – 9 p.m. Celebrating our 26 th year on the air! The PineCone Bluegrass Show is a reporting station in Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Today music polls. Artist Song Title Album Title Record Label Jimmy Martin Crowe on the Banjo You Don't Know My Mind, 1956- Rounder 1966 Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers Katy Daly They're Playing My Song Rebel Records The Soggy Bottom Boys, feat. Dan I am a Man of Constant Sorrow O Brother, Where Art Thou? Mercury/Lost Tyminski (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Highway (Various Artists) Earl Scruggs Flint Hill Special Will the Circle be Unbroken, Volume Capitol Nashville 1 (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/Various Artists) Flatt Lonesome I'm Blue Flatt Lonesome Pisgah Ridge Records J.D. Crowe and the New South She’s Gone, Gone, Gone My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame Rounder James King Crazy Heart Lonesome and Then Some Rounder Here Today My Walkin' Shoes Here Today Rounder Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road That's Kentucky Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road Pinecastle Records The Tony Rice Unit Home From the Forest Manzanita Rounder Highway 58 Bluegrass Tim's Way Highway 58 Bluegrass Audio Farm The Grass Cats 85 on 85 The Old School Road New Time Records Alan Jackson There is a Time The Bluegrass Album ACR Records/EMI Records Nashville The Lonesome River Band The Game is Over Carrying the Tradition Rebel Records Flatt & Scruggs and The Foggy Foggy Mountain Breakdown The Complete Mercury Sessions Mercury Mountain Boys The Osborne Brothers Fastest Grass Alive Once More Volumes I & II Sugar Hill Dailey & Vincent Flowers on the Wall Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Rounder Brothers Weary Hearts I Know the Way to You By Heart By Heart Flying Fish Records Sara Evans & Del McCoury Band Muleskinner Blues Jimmy Arnold Panhandle Rag Strictly Arnold Rebel Records James King Old Five and Dimers Three Chords and the Truth Rounder Larry Sparks Love of the Mountains Classic Bluegrass Rebel Records Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Jesus and Bartenders Murder on Music Row Ripchord Time Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina Lonesome Old Homesick Blues Carolina Blue Pinecastle Records Newton & Thomas Old McDonald Sold the Farm Reborn Pinecastle Records Marty Raybon Home Run Man Full Circle Doobie Shea IIIrd Tyme Out Grandpa’s Mandolin Grandpa's Mandolin Rebel Records Rhonda Vincent I'm Not Over You The Storm Still Rages Rounder The Osborne Brothers Rocky Top 50 Years of Bluegrass Hits, Vol 3 CMH Records (Various Artists) Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Dixie Road Roads Well Traveled Mountain Home Music The Grass Cats The Old School Road The Old School Road New Time Records Constant Change The Rabbit Song Evolving Blue Circle Records Al Batten & the Bluegrass Reunion Lonesome Without You Live at the Kinston Winter Bluegrass Al Batten Festival Country Gentlemen Little Bessie 25 Years Rebel Records Country Gazette Saro Jane Hello Operator….This is Country Flying Fish Gazette David Parmley, Scott Vestal, and New Tin Roof On the Divide Pinecastle Records Continental Divide Craig Smith Sandy River Belle Craig Smith Rounder Craig Smith Curly Headed Woman Craig Smith Rounder Dave Adkins Put Some Grass In It Nothing to Lose Mountain Fever Records Lonesome River Band Mary Ann Talkin' to Myself Sugar Hill Jimmy Martin Ocean of Diamonds You Don't Know My Mind, 1956- Rounder 1966 Nixon, Blevins & Gage Just a Closer Walk Pickin' on Baptists Clover Old & in the Way Pig in a Pen Old & in the Way Arista .
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