{"id":3575453,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3575453/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-08T07:55:19-08:00","show":65054,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65054/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Brandi Carlile","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"","artist_ids":[],"album":"","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":null,"rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Seattle’s own Brandi Carlile recently released her eighth studio album — it’s called “Returning to Myself.” Carlile stopped by KEXP recently to speak with Kevin Cole about the themes of togetherness, confronting middle age, and watching her daughters slowly grow up and become more independent. She tells the story about how writing a poem in a barn started the album writing process, and how she managed to become very close friends with the one and only Joni Mitchell.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"nontrackplay"}