{"id":3560015,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3560015/?format=json","airdate":"2025-10-01T09:46:15-07:00","show":64716,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64716/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/8631005a-2d76-43bd-9002-e077f01ca23f/10259127451-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/8631005a-2d76-43bd-9002-e077f01ca23f/10259127451-250.jpg","song":"Sinnerman","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Nina Simone","artist_ids":[],"album":"Pastel Blues","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"1b3233e2-15ed-344e-bc8e-6630455db87f","labels":["Verve"],"label_ids":["99a24d71-54c1-4d3f-88cc-00fbcc4fce83"],"release_date":"1965-10-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"60 years ago today in 1965 Nina Simone released \"Pastel Blues\".\n\n\"...when the closing traditional spiritual “Sinnerman” follows, it doesn’t exactly let you off the hook, but at least leaves you with a way forward from that brutality: a rhythmic shakedown still beloved of DJs, once remixed by Masters at Work, it provides not redemption but focus for the rage. It is a voodoo-gospel groove that pulls all the yearning of the album together and turns it into movement, sex and funk.\" --Joe Muggs, Vice (https://tinyurl.com/awbf3mvk)\n\nhttps://www.ninasimone.com/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}