{"id":3630890,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3630890/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-19T04:21:29-07:00","show":66219,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66219/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"My Old School","track_id":null,"recording_id":"e6fe5188-e68f-46d3-bc3c-c46cb7282bbf","artist":"Steely Dan","artist_ids":["e01c3376-15fa-40d7-b747-5f219bdefdd7"],"album":"Countdown to Ecstasy","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"33726877-dd41-301b-9f1e-498ebbadc7d8","labels":["MCA Records"],"label_ids":["46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09"],"release_date":"1973-07-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"This one's out to Reid in Denver!\n\nThe song's lyrics tell the story of a May 1969 drug bust at Bard College, named \"Annandale\" in the lyrics after its location. The incident happened while both Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were students there, and the song mentions how a female acquaintance had betrayed them to \"Daddy Gee\" (G. Gordon Liddy, then the local prosecutor.) According to a 2014 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, 44 people were arrested, including Fagen, whose long hair was cut off at the Poughkeepsie jail. The upshot in the song is that the singer vows he is \"never going back\" to the college until \"California tumbles into the sea\".\nhttps://bit.ly/3bP9xJa","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}