{"id":3589783,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589783/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-11T14:14:18-08:00","show":65348,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65348/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/32028dd1-0188-4442-af7e-2d945e100c49/14385513654-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/32028dd1-0188-4442-af7e-2d945e100c49/14385513654-250.jpg","song":"What I Am","track_id":null,"recording_id":"39b02539-2bce-4aa5-b232-307c5cb3dee6","artist":"Edie Brickell & New Bohemians","artist_ids":["df87d5be-c4b5-48e4-97b2-6440b77ca4fb"],"album":"What I Am","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"84ef1460-280b-3fbc-abe1-0b7225505290","labels":["Geffen Records"],"label_ids":["0fadc2ce-f7de-4e27-bbe6-612b317e716b"],"release_date":"1988-11-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Triple OG!!!\n--\nEdie Brickell was not an original member of the New Bohemians, which started life as a ska band in Dallas, Texas with Brad Houser on bass, Eric Presswood on guitar, and Brandon Aly on drums. They all met at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts - Edie Brickell also attended there, but she didn't hook up with them until much later. In 1985, Brickell, then an art student at Southern Methodist University, saw them perform at an after-hours club, and after working up her courage with some help from a persistent friend and some shots of Jack Daniel's, came on stage to sing with them. Not long after, they made her their lead singer.\n--\nBrickell wrote this song with Kenny Withrow, a guitarist in the group. He plays the wonderful wah wah guitar here.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}