{"id":3640209,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3640209/?format=json","airdate":"2026-04-10T07:45:03-07:00","show":66414,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66414/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Taken Away","track_id":"4a9bf7d6-9b7a-4a9f-b406-49d11d042e51","recording_id":"8b7d0108-a517-4cdc-ae48-3af86d895a63","artist":"Moodymann","artist_ids":["17d69e72-9cf2-496f-aa64-ba238de2087e"],"album":"TAKEN AWAY | KDJ-49","release_id":"e3908f0e-1848-44c9-a8fd-ce9733f24437","release_group_id":"0e152200-b399-42d6-8027-e61862e17855","labels":["Mahogani Music"],"label_ids":["fa271a4f-5059-44f4-81f5-b25dac89b3d2"],"release_date":"2020-05-21","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Kenny Dixon Jr aka Moodymann, is a Detroit-based producer, artist, and CEO of Mahogani Music.\n--\nThis song samples Roberta Flack's 1971 \"Sunday and Sister Jones.\" In Flack’s telling, a reverend’s wife wails and warns God not to let her husband die, or she will too: “Lord, if you take him away,” she sings, “I don’t want to live another day.” They both pass. “Sister Jones was taken away,” Flack mourns. For Moodymann, the \"taken away\" becomes prison and beyond. - https://bit.ly/3RbSLpF\n","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}