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The PineCone Bluegrass Show WQDR 94.7 FM, and streaming on 947qdr.com Hosted by Tim Woodall March 9, 2014, 6 – 9 p.m. Celebrating our 25 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 Jim Mills Sledd Ridin’ My Dixie Home Sugar Hill The Boxcars It’s Just a Road It’s Just a Road Mountain Home Music Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Dixie Road Roads Well Traveled Mountain Home Music Alison Krauss Don’t Follow Me Too Late to Cry Rounder James King The Devil’s Train Three Chords and the Truth Rounder Country Gazette Cabin on a Mountain Hello Operator….This is Country Flying Fish Gazette Rhonda Vincent Busy City Only Me Upper Management Music Don Rigsby Brand New Tennessee Waltz Doctor’s Orders: A Tribute to Rebel Records Ralph Stanley Junior Sisk & Joe Mullen Wild Mountain Honey Hall of Fame Bluegrass! Rebel Records Alan Jackson Blue Ridge Mountain Song The Bluegrass Album Universal Nashville Al Batten Carolina Mountain Home 36 Years and Counting Al Batten The Spinney Brothers Grandpa’s Way of Life No Borders Mountain Fever Records Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road I Saw the Golden Stairs Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road Pinecastle Records Constant Change Mountain Man Evolving Blue Circle Records The Dillards Dooley There is a Time (1963-1970) Vanguard Records Dailey & Vincent Do You Know You are My Sunshine Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Cracker Barrel Brothers Music Russell Johnson Old Moonshiner Anytime, Anyplace but Only You New Time Records Sam Bush Roll on Buddy, Roll On Circles Around Me Sugar Hill Sara Evans Muleskinner Blues Live on the Grand Ole Opry (with Del McCoury Band) J.D. Crowe Helen Bluegrass Holiday Rebel Records The Boxcars Cornelia It’s Just a Road Mountain Home Music Alan Bibey Gordon McGregor Mandolin Artistry Volume 1 Vamp (Various Artists) Big Country Bluegrass I’m Putting on My Leaving Shoes Memories of the Past Rebel Records The Grass Cats Prisoner of Your Love The Mountains, My Baby and Me New Time Records The SteelDrivers Good Corn Liquor Reckless Rounder The Osborne Brothers Ruby – Are You Mad at Your Man High Lonesome: The Story of CMH Records Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Various Artists) Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan, & Kentucky King Lonesome Standard Time Sugar Hill Lonesome Standard Time Rhonda Vincent We Must Have Been Out of Our Only Me Upper Management Minds Music Jimmy Martin Widow Maker Jimmy Martin’s Greatest Hits Gusto Records Carl Jackson & John Starling and The Lonesome Dove Spring Training Sugar Hill Nash Ramblers Alison Krauss & Union Station But You Know I Love You Live Rounder Alan Jackson Appalachian Mountain Girl The Bluegrass Album EMI Records Nashville Dan Tyminski/The Soggy Bottom I am a Man of Constant Sorrow O Brother, Where Art Thou? Mercury Boys (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Various Artists) Alecia Nugent I’ll Stay Around Alecia Nugent Rounder Flatt & Scruggs Down the Road 1959-1963 Bear Family Marty Raybon & Full Circle Slowly (I’m Falling) The Back Forty Rural Rhythm Records Bill Monroe The Old Crossroads Bluegrass ’87 MCA/Geffen J.D. Crowe & The New South Rose Colored Glasses Live in Japan Rounder Ricky Skaggs Little Mountain Church House Will the Circle be Unbroken MCA Nashville Volume Two (Various Artists) Ronnie & Rob McCoury Thanks a Lot Ronnie & Rob McCoury Rounder Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out Gentle on My Mind Timeless Hits from the Past Cracker Barrel Bluegrassed Music Audie Blaylock A Voice of Our Savior Christmas the Mountain Way Rural Rhythm (Various Artists) Christian Tommy Webb If it Weren’t for Bluegrass Music I’d Eastern Kentucky Kindred Records Go Crazy Lonesome Standard Time Bandit Mighty Lonesome Sugar Hill The Lonesome River Band Cabin of Love Carrying the Tradition Rebel Records .
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