{"id":370889,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/370889/?format=json","airdate":"2019-08-22T15:11:55-07:00","show":6179,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6179/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Dimples","track_id":"d202e55e-9445-3513-ab3d-7c3cda405edc","recording_id":null,"artist":"John Lee Hooker","artist_ids":["b0122194-c49a-46a1-ade7-84d1d76bd8e9"],"album":"The Definitive Collection","release_id":"0b4a8493-6da6-4cb1-a3c6-3771c383a82e","release_group_id":null,"labels":["Hip‐O Records"],"label_ids":["71f53f0e-6286-4684-8bb8-33c027397852"],"release_date":"2006-05-23","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Happy Birthday to John Lee Hooker! \n(August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001 - aged 83) a highly influential American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. Hooker was born in Mississippi as the son of a sharecropper, and rose to prominence performing his own interpretation of a unique style of country blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that became his trademark.\nJohn Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing and singing. \nHis best known songs include Boogie Chillen' (1948), I'm in the Mood (1951), and Boom Boom (1962)—the first two reaching #1 on the Billboard R&B chart.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}