Is there a better cure for the cooped-up winter blahs than great music? Walter asked four local DJs for their top picks.
Carson Blackley
Recent N.C. State graduate Carson Blackley is a radio host and producer for Raleigh’s new country radio station, B93.9 FM.
1. Give Me Back My Hometown – Eric Church
2. Indian Outlaw – Tim McGraw
3. Follow Your Arrow – Kacey Musgraves
4. Muckalee Creek Water – Luke Bryan
5. I Hold On – Dierks Bentley
6. Cowboy Take Me Away – Dixie Chicks
7. The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down – The Band
8. Whiskey’s Gone – Zac Brown Band
9. Carolina – Eric Church
10. Wild at Heart – Gloriana
11. Harper Valley PTA – Jeannie C. Riley
12. In Color – Jamey Johnson
13. Dancin’ Away with My Heart – Lady Antebellum
14. Something Like That – Tim McGraw
15. Kerosene – Miranda Lambert
SPCLGST
SPCLGST, aka Joe Giampino, was voted 2013’s Best Club DJ by the readers of Indy Weekly. He plays all kinds of clubs and private parties.
1. Goodbye Horses – Q Lazzarus
2. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
3. Don’t Change – INXS
4. A Forest – THE CURE
5. The World (Is Going Up in Flames) – Charles Bradley
6. Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter – Nina Simone
7. Perfect Life – Belong
8. Paper Romance – Groove Amanda
9. Midnight in a Perfect World – DJ Shadow
10. Glory Box – Portishead
11. Da Mystery of Chessboxin’ – Wu-Tang Clan
12. I Love You (Remix) – Mary J. Blige, featuring Smif n Wessun
13. Player’s Ball – OutKast
14. Shabba – A$AP Ferg
15. Zip & A Double Cup – Juicy J
Joe Bunn
Joe Bunn is known for keeping the dance floors full at Raleigh weddings and dance parties.
1. Timber – Pitbull, featuring Ke$ha
2. Dark Horse – Katy Perry, featuring Juicy J
3. Stay the Night – Zedd, featuring Hayley Williams
4. Team – Lorde
5. Show Me – Kid Ink, featuring Chris Brown
6. Story of My Life – One Direction
7. Gas Pedal – Sage the Gemini, featuring IamSu
8. Wake Me Up – Avicii
9. Hold On, We’re Coming Home – Drake, featuring Majid Jordan
10. Can’t Hold Us – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
11. Don’t Drop That Thun Thun – Finatticz
12. Treasure – Bruno Mars
13. Do What U Want – Lady Gaga, featuring R. Kelly
14. Thinking About You – Calvin Harris, featuring Ayah Marar
15. Take Back the Night – Justin Timberlake
Jim Davis
WNCU’s.025 90.7 jazz announcer Jim Davis hosts 8 Track Flashback every Saturday. He begins in the late ’60s, and works backwards over four hours into the ’40s.
1960s
1. Ain’t Nothing but a House Party –
Showstoppers
2. 634-5789 – Wilson Picket
3. Reputation – Little Anthony & Imperials
4. People Get Ready – Impressions
5. Oh My Angel – Bertha Tillman
Classic 1950s
6. Back in the USA – Chuck Berry
7. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On –
Jerry Lee Lewis
8. That Dood It – James Brown
9. I Love You So – Chantels
10. Most of All – Moonglows
Early 50s, 1940s
11. Money – Honey-Drifters
12. I’m Gonna Play the Honky Tonks –
Marie Adams
13. Safronia B – Calvin Bose
14. Baby Get Lost – Dinah Washington
15. Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well – Wynonie Harris, with Lucky Millinder
