Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=39480&ordering=-airdate
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Brown recorded this song many times in many ways.\n\nGreat live video of this one from 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xxoKuwBU8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593966, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593966/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:46:33-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cf05b7a1-8000-41ad-85f9-df443761d2b5/18881623204-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cf05b7a1-8000-41ad-85f9-df443761d2b5/18881623204-250.jpg", "song": "Merry Christmas Baby", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c6bd1ded-89bb-4675-a3a5-90f8d7d681e4", "artist": "The Ramsey Lewis Trio", "artist_ids": [ "98789b37-4903-42b4-9f5a-2e602684bff5" ], "album": "Sound of Christmas", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "4bca51fc-fb43-4519-8150-acc483dd8cda", "labels": [ "Argo" ], "label_ids": [ "bb9a014f-e627-47ef-97c2-81431ce26f97" ], "release_date": "1961-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Let's have another xmas video from Ramsey Lewis, “I'll Be Home for Christmas”, from 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3Vn_0bDP8 ; https://www.facebook.com/RamseyLewisJazz", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593965, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593965/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:43:42-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Little Drummer Boy", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c9e3de21-ec09-4559-8788-b6205ddabe06", "artist": "Lou Rawls", "artist_ids": [ "c8bd802a-6e4a-41a4-95fa-2c1ee33f65a5" ], "album": "Merry Christmas Ho! Ho! Ho!", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5ba29e9e-bf84-42a3-b287-93d2ee48c22c", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1967-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Rawls was a U.S. paratrooper, survived a car crash from which he was declared legally dead before rising out of a coma, sang backup for Sam Cooke, raised millions of dollars for charity, and won three Grammys.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593964, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593964/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:40:10-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3593963, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593963/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:37:10-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Lonesome Christmas", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "bf09b015-1265-44f4-9a62-811a7fd02831", "artist": "Lowell Fulson", "artist_ids": [ "df9483e8-e037-450e-bcc4-6e9c280a4f73" ], "album": "Lonesome Christmas (Single)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Hollywood Records" ], "label_ids": [ "6bb7c1b2-cb06-4381-9c59-02b1ae4aa96d" ], "release_date": "1995-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Oklahoma-born guitarist and songwriter, deemed the most important figure in 1940-50s West Coast blues, only after T-Bone Walker.\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/mar/12/guardianobituaries2", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593962, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593962/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:34:53-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Christmas Blues", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2e8050ea-6a94-4e54-8f48-37890499ea23", "artist": "Big Joe Williams", "artist_ids": [ "bf295ac0-21e8-4e11-89e9-22b10fd8973a" ], "album": "Merry Blue Christmas", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5bf8a254-598c-4157-adc6-50eb78ea75de", "labels": [ "Fuel 2000 Records" ], "label_ids": [ "8d5f7bb6-74a7-441d-aebb-ed112f5d9f19" ], "release_date": "2002-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Recorded in 1971. Williams played a nine string guitar typically tuned to open G, gradually adding strings over the years so no one else could play his guitar.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593961, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593961/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:31:52-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Merry Christmas Darling", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "19adf539-fd0f-4543-815c-41fba3f57a55", "artist": "Hop Wilson", "artist_ids": [ "24889024-c3d5-44e1-9b62-0e41f4866ebc" ], "album": "Blues, Blues Christmas - Volume 3, 1927-1962", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "494e85e0-7a84-4aa3-a7bc-d8010af9f647", "labels": [ "Document Records" ], "label_ids": [ "118ef48e-0a1a-4826-aa87-27a5a3d3d465" ], "release_date": "2015-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Recorded in 1961 by the Texas harmonica player.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593960, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593960/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:29:06-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Christmas Tears", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "4b804b40-8f3c-4dce-98fe-b11a6ee8beaa", "artist": "Freddie King", "artist_ids": [ "d6ae4b23-965f-485a-b2c2-66c43ffaef20" ], "album": "Blues Blues Christmas Vol. 3", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Document" ], "label_ids": [ "a15cc4b1-20ab-4f4d-a269-35cc691e659c" ], "release_date": "2013-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "1961 single on Federal. Festively enough, he has been called one of blues guitar's “Three Kings of blues guitar” (along with Albert King and B.B. 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with Kenny Dorham, trumpet; Al Haig, piano; Tommy Potter, bass; Max Roach, drums", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593955, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593955/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:12:15-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Christmas Spirit", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "00a9cf3d-52ce-4cdb-9f3f-6af178cd0006", "artist": "Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends", "artist_ids": [ "f5ae54fd-a332-4e3a-86a7-cf54254f11be" ], "album": "Hipsters’ Holiday: Vocal Jazz and R&B Classics", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "947d010c-07ee-3c9c-8a26-c57fb4fd0247", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "1947 release on Capitol ; got her start in Kansas City speakeasies during Prohibition: http://www.uncamarvy.com/JuliaLee/julialee.html ; http://www.hipchristmas.com/lists/songs/61.php", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593954, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593954/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:09:24-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Love for Christmas", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c0a68c79-a1d3-428f-94e0-0e4cd7c710f0", "artist": "Felix Gross", "artist_ids": [ "2e96cc8e-1181-493d-84fe-94327be0fa31" ], "album": "Christmas Blues", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "7ab56332-f7c6-4c17-81c1-9c8a586f8724", "labels": [ "Diggers Factory" ], "label_ids": [ "b9ec0b47-97f7-44a3-967e-9df415d3aa96" ], "release_date": "2005-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "1949 release on Savoy", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593953, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593953/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:06:07-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Far Away Christmas Blues", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "73236a8a-919d-46ba-8370-3ea0ac537f2c", "artist": "Little Esther w/ Johnny Otis Orchestra", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Savoy Christmas Blues", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "41323cfa-bf22-4b55-ae27-8009ddfedba3", "labels": [ "Savoy Jazz" ], "label_ids": [ "83b99127-6ecc-4034-a194-9ea99a1a1c8a" ], "release_date": "2003-11-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Recorded in 1950, when Little Esther was just thirteen ; this was one of six singles she recorded in her debut year that made it to the Top 10.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593952, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593952/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:01:45-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Merry Christmas, Baby", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ccb5372d-372b-4292-b4cd-94536f95e035", "artist": "Charles Brown", "artist_ids": [ "dbc9229a-6fb7-43b1-9763-df1e87112a93" ], "album": "Merry Christmas Baby", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "dafeb888-7c49-3d61-8fa3-490fd449ae48", "labels": [ "Bullseye" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1984-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Great live video of this one from 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xxoKuwBU8 ; definitive Christmas song from a definitive Christmas song-singer (and all-around genius blues and soul singer, of course)", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593951, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593951/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:00:25-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3593950, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593950/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T08:58:33-08:00", "show": 65437, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65437/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Zero Gravity", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "9414f63d-e673-43a0-bca1-79f0ff503467", "artist": "Resavoir & Matt Gold", "artist_ids": [ "b8acf43e-1ad5-4657-85a6-a75cc1f5e5fe", "6c1193e9-c60f-4656-b191-e31e97a31215" ], "album": "Horizon", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b6af29fe-cba0-4f21-a4ed-a54e51ef21e4", "labels": [ "International Anthem Recording Co." ], "label_ids": [ "817464f6-8b69-4467-988c-1ce0bc23122e" ], "release_date": "2025-05-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Taken off a supremely chill album from Chicago's Resavoir (aka Will Miller) in collaboration with Matt Gold ~ https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/horizon", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593949, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593949/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T08:57:31-08:00", "show": 65437, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65437/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Nova", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Jonny Fryer", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Saudade", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Trestle Records" ], "label_ids": [ "3cb85e1f-d5e7-44b7-8389-fd48c492fc8f" ], "release_date": "2025-01-10", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Blissful early 2025 guitar-focused instrumental album from Jonny Fryer ~ https://trestlerec.bandcamp.com/album/saudade", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
