{"id":3577149,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3577149/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-12T08:11:28-08:00","show":65088,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65088/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"The Whole of the Moon","track_id":"b1ae9daf-2598-3de4-a973-a0a9c0384e72","recording_id":"feb2fadc-8e87-4f43-954f-e12e98c497fb","artist":"The Waterboys","artist_ids":["21666405-49f8-44f6-94bb-e064f202f7ba"],"album":"The Whole of the Moon: The Music of Mike Scott and The Waterboys","release_id":"e81ad268-eaa0-432f-97be-69108790f54a","release_group_id":"46fc1056-7649-34dd-a028-7765761c4697","labels":["EMI"],"label_ids":["c029628b-6633-439e-bcee-ed02e8a338f7"],"release_date":"1998-10-06","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Songwriter and vocalist Mike Scott: I was in Manhattan with my girlfriend, Krista. She asked: “Is it easy to write songs?” In my 20s I hadn’t yet grown out of the urge to show off to a new girlfriend, so I said: “Yes it is!” I pulled a pen and a piece of paper out of my pocket. There was a moon in the sky, so I wrote down: “I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon.” She was duly impressed. I fleshed it out in the hotel and back home in London came up with more lyrics and the piano part, a self-taught rhythm with one finger doing one pattern and three fingers doing another. \n\nHere's an interview with Scott and backing vocalist Max Edie about how The Waterboys made this great song: https://tinyurl.com/4tzw6d4c\n\nhttps://thewaterboys.bandcamp.com\nhttps://mikescottwaterboys.com","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}