{"id":3635197,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3635197/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-29T15:57:35-07:00","show":66313,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66313/?format=json","image_uri":"https://dn721907.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9ecbca40-38b8-4256-b351-6ffb2e064869/mbid-9ecbca40-38b8-4256-b351-6ffb2e064869-31117835937_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://dn721907.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9ecbca40-38b8-4256-b351-6ffb2e064869/mbid-9ecbca40-38b8-4256-b351-6ffb2e064869-31117835937_thumb250.jpg","song":"Skyway","track_id":"0438d299-dca6-38b0-bd89-668bbd732431","recording_id":"6a50ebe3-7e03-47ab-a303-e4d3f8063b8d","artist":"The Replacements","artist_ids":["dc0d05ce-2f47-4962-b4fa-8631a0a51987"],"album":"Pleased to Meet Me","release_id":"9ecbca40-38b8-4256-b351-6ffb2e064869","release_group_id":"dc5f823b-976f-3ef5-86a7-d443966d212b","labels":["Sire Records","Rhino"],"label_ids":["be0fec81-5c18-4494-8bbf-0d81dec006bf","c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4"],"release_date":"2008-09-23","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Written by Paul Westerberg, \"Skyway\" is a delicate acoustic ballad about unrequited love and daily observation in Minneapolis. It famously uses the city's heated, pedestrian skyway system as a metaphor for longing and distance, featuring only acoustic guitars and sparse instrumentation.\n\nThe Replacements were originally known for their shambolic rock energy.\n\nAs Westerberg explained in a 2008 interview to promote the video game Rock Band 2, he eventually overcame his reluctance to introduce more restrained material to the band.\n\n\"I thought there was no reason to drag these little ballads out and embarrass the group with them or make everybody sit down and play zithers,\" Westerberg said.\n\n\"I knew that we were a live act and I was fairly adamant about keeping my stuff away from them for a while until it kind of got to the point where the quiet stuff was better stuff and I simply got tired of shouting for about four years.\" https://tinyurl.com/2rfapakw","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}