Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3640172/?format=api
{ "id": 3640172, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3640172/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-04-10T05:11:05-07:00", "show": 66413, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66413/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800507.us.archive.org/6/items/mbid-b5bab9e2-1169-4cea-a74d-48fed6b8aa2d/mbid-b5bab9e2-1169-4cea-a74d-48fed6b8aa2d-36627960935_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721606.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-b5bab9e2-1169-4cea-a74d-48fed6b8aa2d/mbid-b5bab9e2-1169-4cea-a74d-48fed6b8aa2d-36627960935_thumb250.jpg", "song": "I'm Going Home", "track_id": "b8011bd7-b943-3668-b2c0-0f6518af9020", "recording_id": "93aff9b4-380e-4f83-9411-c9a4a4e32261", "artist": "Ervin Webb & group", "artist_ids": [ "0d7ccfab-39e7-4caa-8faf-2a387913f203" ], "album": "The Alan Lomax Collection Sampler", "release_id": "b5bab9e2-1169-4cea-a74d-48fed6b8aa2d", "release_group_id": "0810969c-7cb9-3ee9-ab6b-b220759bae9f", "labels": [ "Rounder" ], "label_ids": [ "4b8d82bb-8abc-471f-a809-4060e2bc9a3a" ], "release_date": "1997-07-07", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A Parchman Farm field recording from Alan Lomax’s 1959 Mississippi prison sessions, led by inmate Ervin Webb with other prisoners on a spare, work-song-style blues that feels less like a “performance” than a stubborn act of self-preservation. The song was captured at the dairy camp of Mississippi State Penitentiary and later reissued in Lomax anthologies.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }