{"id":370912,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/370912/?format=json","airdate":"2019-08-22T16:03:00-07:00","show":6179,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6179/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Bustin' Loose","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Chuck Brown","artist_ids":["3a9d80e7-564a-418f-91d4-0cb7fee9965e"],"album":"Bustin' Loose","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"1979-01-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Happy Birthday Chuck Brown!  (August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012 - aged 75) an American guitarist and singer who is affectionately called \"the Godfather of Go-go.\"  Go-go is a subgenre of funk developed in and around Washington, D.C. in the 1970s. In the 1950s, Brown was convicted of murder and served eight years. In prison, he traded cigarettes for a guitar, which was how his love for the instrument began. When Brown completed his sentence, he moved back to D.C. and worked as a truck driver, a bricklayer, and a sparring partner at boxing gyms. He also started to perform at parties; but he couldn’t play at venues that served liquor, because of the terms of his probation.\nIn the mid-1970s, with disco luring dancers away from live bands, Mr. Brown drew on James Brown’s funk, Latin rhythms and the crowd-pleasing good humor of Cab Calloway-era big bands to create go-go.\nPlaying bluesy guitar and leading call-and-response chants in a grainy baritone, Brown wove the beat seamlessly from one song to the next, keeping people on their feet all night. Brown said that the style got its name because “the music just goes and goes.”\n“Bustin’ Loose” was Brown’s only single to reach Billboard’s Top 40, in 1979, and it held at No. 1 on the R&B chart for four weeks.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}