{"id":3559697,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3559697/?format=json","airdate":"2025-09-30T15:49:15-07:00","show":64710,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64710/?format=json","image_uri":"https://ia800502.us.archive.org/15/items/mbid-3e3c90cd-0c0c-4beb-8f7b-b95a076c89eb/mbid-3e3c90cd-0c0c-4beb-8f7b-b95a076c89eb-14763601258_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://ia800502.us.archive.org/15/items/mbid-3e3c90cd-0c0c-4beb-8f7b-b95a076c89eb/mbid-3e3c90cd-0c0c-4beb-8f7b-b95a076c89eb-14763601258_thumb250.jpg","song":"Cranes in the Sky","track_id":"90aeb963-88c6-412c-9d96-989381610bf1","recording_id":"8c8047f3-0a64-4440-a8ea-03ca401cde5b","artist":"Solange","artist_ids":["410e7fd3-b865-4fa0-bb18-1b7fd53382ca"],"album":"A Seat at the Table","release_id":"3e3c90cd-0c0c-4beb-8f7b-b95a076c89eb","release_group_id":"331a7ba1-fae2-4881-b434-554f46c13746","labels":["Saint Records","Columbia"],"label_ids":["b1b1a18a-888a-4d3d-b13b-1b3c5e845bfc","011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e"],"release_date":"2016-09-30","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Released on this day in 2016!\n---\nRaphael Saadiq produced \"Cranes in the Sky\". \n\nSolange told Song Exploder that she wrote \"Cranes in the Sky\" about her own mental health, particularly in a time when she'd moved back to her hometown of Houston, Texas, after living in Idaho for years with her ex.\n\n\"There were times that I felt like, 'Well, I'm doing what I love to do, what I've always wanted to—Why do things still feel so heavy? What is this weighing on me, what is this that I'm trying to work through?'\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}