{"id":3609344,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3609344/?format=json","airdate":"2026-01-26T10:00:03-08:00","show":65760,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65760/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"American Tune","track_id":"91cb6155-f2f8-361a-909f-0051a7526a08","recording_id":"2c956a89-1cd7-4c4a-9d4f-75bd5eb2513f","artist":"Paul Simon","artist_ids":["05517043-ff78-4988-9c22-88c68588ebb9"],"album":"There Goes Rhymin‘ Simon","release_id":"4275fdca-07aa-4fd5-af0f-aabd7b0f9482","release_group_id":"fb1e90a8-4461-382b-9081-183abb3c8997","labels":["Columbia"],"label_ids":["011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e"],"release_date":"1973-05-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"By request!\n\n\"I don’t write overtly political songs, although American Tune comes pretty close, as it was written just after Nixon was elected. Writing good political songs or so-called “protest songs” is its own art form. When I write about politics it’s usually part of a song, maybe a verse or two rather than the whole thing. Many of the songs, the ones that aren’t story songs, change subjects as often as any internal conversation does. Our minds flit from topic to topic all the time. I write like that.\"\nhttps://www.paulsimon.com/news/paul-simon-discusses-political-references-songs/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}