Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=115160&ordering=-airdate
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"comment": "Neal Casal, Dan Horne, Cass McCombs, Farmer Dave Scher and Aaron Sperske focused on traditional songs for this EP, this one being based on the true story of Stag Lee Shelton shooting Billy Lyons on Christmas 1895.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3429464, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3429464/?format=api", "airdate": "2024-11-24T11:03:58-08:00", "show": 61934, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/61934/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/58cf3a7c-5e97-4511-b176-af929cfdb56e/35328404608-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/58cf3a7c-5e97-4511-b176-af929cfdb56e/35328404608-250.jpg", "song": "Stagolee", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "6986bd61-21c6-4230-99e4-a08d832137af", "artist": "Beck", "artist_ids": [ "309c62ba-7a22-4277-9f67-4a162526d18a" ], "album": "Avalon Blues: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": 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"artist": "Shirley Ellis", "artist_ids": [ "68aafb3e-cfc2-4549-8dd5-e1d8753dd697" ], "album": "The Name Game", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b94a1ebd-b812-4343-9d53-c105d44007e4", "labels": [ "Congress" ], "label_ids": [ "3f7908d2-1047-4772-afff-5a84ca2e5e14" ], "release_date": "1965-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Best known for co-writing and performing the songs The Nitty Gritty and The Clapping Song, Ellis covered the traditional Mississippi murder ballad song for her second album.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3429461, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3429461/?format=api", "airdate": "2024-11-24T10:56:10-08:00", "show": 61934, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/61934/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Stagger Lee", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Teddy Hill and his Southern Soul", 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Known as both Stagger Lee and Stack O'Lee, pimp and murderer Lee Shelton's nickname was thought to be in reference to the tall smokestack of the steamboat named Robert E. Lee.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
