{"id":3593135,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593135/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-19T16:04:19-08:00","show":65421,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65421/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Church & State","track_id":"5fe8e9f1-8075-4da2-9d6c-02c3a6e8127c","recording_id":"878db43b-d43a-4054-aa8d-f2dce43d7ea2","artist":"Brandi Carlile","artist_ids":["baf05baf-69fb-47dd-93c2-033536b8c385"],"album":"Returning To Myself","release_id":"f2a91010-7566-46d7-a7c6-a67f5338d571","release_group_id":"57acb85c-ec18-4e4c-8c6a-9052a7115ece","labels":["Interscope Records","Lost Highway Records"],"label_ids":["2182a316-c4bd-4605-936a-5e2fac52bdd2","5b34c929-fd09-4b57-a8bf-1e8eb0f21c12"],"release_date":"2025-10-24","rotation_status":"R/N","is_local":true,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"#31\n\nCarlile shares, \"One of my top five favorite albums of all time growing up was The Joshua Tree… I even entered a contest one time as Bono when I was 15 to win a singing competition, singing 'Running to Stand Still.' I wore sunglasses and shit and I fell on my knees at the end of it. I already had the lesbian haircut that he has, so it wasn’t much of a stretch… So Daniel Lanois [who co-produced Joshua Tree, as well as Wrecking Ball] was on my mind a lot.\"\n\nOn the creation of this track, Carlile reveals, \"I was reading a conversation on the First Amendment instead of a guitar solo. I love Andrew Watt so much. Every time we talk on the phone, he’s like, 'I fucking love 'Church & State,' because I love when you read the Declaration of Independence.\n\nRead more about Brandi's latest album here:\nhttps://tinyurl.com/5yjm5mmk","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}