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{
    "id": 3639798,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3639798/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-09T07:53:37-07:00",
    "show": 66406,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66406/?format=api",
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    "song": "Short Change Hero",
    "track_id": "c339d933-225a-3673-b2b4-b69c7b5a1539",
    "recording_id": "28c0a8a9-e81f-4c45-a8d8-4e51326b7e4f",
    "artist": "The Heavy",
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    "album": "The House That Dirt Built",
    "release_id": "dfbbc3cb-6416-4fc2-8c37-85694e9f6fa9",
    "release_group_id": "d7f6c1d7-9f77-41d8-a511-6fbf4ddb916d",
    "labels": [
        "Counter Records"
    ],
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    ],
    "release_date": "2009-10-05",
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    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "Singer Kevin Swaby was in an airport with guitarist Dan Taylor when the inspiration struck. Said the Heavy frontman: \"I was in the airport writing this beat, and then I start doing this humming. So I did the humming, came up with the beat, and I took it to Dan. He immediately started playing something like straight out of a Western. I said, 'Yeah, this is the road that we need to go down.' Because it reminds me of that whole sentiment of the bad guy coming into town and being run out of town, if you see what I mean. So that was the whole sentiment of 'Short Change Hero.' \n--\nIn 2020, The Heavy performed this song live for KEXP listeners at The Triple Door in Seattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtKpUy5YDHM",
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}