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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=4100&ordering=-airdate
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What a voice. What a song. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/hAIpiID_iII\n--\nShe is the daughter of writer an producer Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, The Last of Us).", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604994, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604994/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T07:21:45-08:00", "show": 65664, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65664/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "No Kings", "track_id": "2eb04469-dcb8-4666-9b20-29a0b28b2a42", "recording_id": "e19fb0ec-e82a-450f-9791-184a843e748b", "artist": "Jesse Welles feat. 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What's needed is an anthem, something that everybody can sing.” \n--\nJesse Welles and Joan Baez sang this along with Bob Dylan's \"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right\" at The Fillmore in San Francisco back in November 2025. https://tinyurl.com/4ke8cczf", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604993, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604993/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T07:19:14-08:00", "show": 65664, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65664/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Blowin' In The Wind", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ba57097a-4904-4008-a2cd-f7e5e4f62a82", "artist": "Bob Dylan", "artist_ids": [ "72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8" ], "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "169b62aa-c3a5-3ed9-bed1-cc47c4bc51ad", "labels": [ "CBS" ], "label_ids": [ "b8d33bec-92cc-40d9-bd92-4eb089b401a9" ], "release_date": "1963-05-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Blowin' in the Wind\" appeared on Bob Dylan's second album in 1963. The song was covered by many other artists and helped Dylan gain exposure on the national level as a songwriter. https://americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-in-1962-bob-dylan-went-into-the-studio-to-record-the-song-that-introduced-him-to-the-world/\n--\nWatch Mr. Dylan perform it live on TV in 1963: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwgrjjIMXA", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604991, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604991/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T07:16:47-08:00", "show": 65664, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65664/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "This Land Is Your Land", "track_id": "9017e1cf-b1d7-33fb-aa77-1a9b8f024d04", "recording_id": "9c96b62e-798d-4ae9-a266-2131ae6a445e", "artist": "Woody Guthrie", "artist_ids": [ "cbd827e1-4e38-427e-a436-642683433732" ], "album": "Smithsonian Folkways: American Roots Collection", "release_id": "e2a29b6f-ba77-48da-909b-2dc8d61976ac", "release_group_id": "24f1954e-569e-31f5-92c8-cf77eaa93a0d", "labels": [ "Smithsonian Folkways" ], "label_ids": [ "a1bc50b9-4ef5-409d-9042-594d653f425a" ], "release_date": "1996-06-18", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"This Land Is Your Land\" wasn't released by Folkways until 1951, but the song was originally written in February 1940, when Woody Guthrie first arrived in New York City from Oklahoma. Guthrie had a keen ear for the recordings of Virginia's Carter Family, and he was not afraid to borrow. A 1930 gospel recording, \"When the World's on Fire,\" sung by the Carters, must have provided the tune for what would become \"This Land Is Your Land.\"\n--\nLearn more about this \"alternative American anthem\": https://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604990, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604990/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T07:10:59-08:00", "show": 65664, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65664/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "We Shall Overcome", "track_id": "252dfbc0-4de7-3503-8fa1-8bf95ff80b64", "recording_id": "299a6750-7d61-4927-b05a-988c832b8c7a", "artist": "Pete Seeger", "artist_ids": [ "af18a9bc-e4ab-4068-9489-b64e8186fcf1" ], "album": "We Shall Overcome", "release_id": "ecf6ef1a-cbf7-4434-b7dd-cd778c9a7648", "release_group_id": "b2d8d8be-f66a-3888-8c35-b6ea9def0897", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "1963-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Here's the beloved Pete Seeger performing this song live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osKWCDXl40", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604989, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604989/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T07:07:41-08:00", "show": 65664, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65664/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "We Rise (Original)", "track_id": "7e7668af-fd7c-49eb-8902-d7b81c480ee0", "recording_id": "7eea5373-a868-41bd-b259-b5a10f5275eb", "artist": "Rhiannon Giddens", "artist_ids": [ "3f7574d9-94f3-46dc-8228-9d7358019d9f" ], "album": "We Rise", "release_id": "76c388bf-b42e-4fcf-971e-b23115a25d21", "release_group_id": "f852246a-596f-4e17-9471-78a5885678e2", "labels": [ "NC Music Love Army" ], "label_ids": [ "d1f52ddf-af19-495c-82ce-449c4835e815" ], "release_date": "2014-06-23", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In 2014, Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops (and solo artist) collaborated on \"We Rise\" with Charly Lowry and Pura Fé for the Music Maker Relief Foundation’s 20th Anniversary.\nThe Music Makers Relief Foundation is a non-profit that preserves the musical heritage of the south and supports struggling blues and traditional musicians.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604988, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604988/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T07:03:30-08:00", "show": 65664, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65664/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)", "track_id": "2f973372-3ff8-4ff0-a9fe-900900d8dbf4", "recording_id": "8732e5af-35c1-4aa8-80c9-81a76280a37e", "artist": "Resistance Revival Chorus", "artist_ids": [ "4956c0b6-5b55-46e7-9f5f-da7c3cdc5b52" ], "album": "This Joy", "release_id": "78e536ec-281f-413d-83c4-d05b976089b8", "release_group_id": "bdfe4191-371d-45d6-b58d-3d37a8b2106e", "labels": [ "Righteous Babe Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9d1ac05c-138a-41d4-a869-59364e81759c" ], "release_date": "2020-10-16", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Good morning, happy Friday, and welcome to The Morning Show with the renowned John Richards and esteemed producer Owen Murphy! Our Album of the Week is Love & Rockets’ “Earth, Sun, Moon.” Thank you so much for joining us today!\n--\nThe Resistance Revival Chorus is a collective of more than 60 women and non-binary singers, who join together to breathe joy and song into the resistance, and to uplift and center women’s voices.: https://www.resistancerevivalchorus.com\n---\nThis song was created in a jail cell in 1961 by Black American preacher and Freedom Rides participant Reverend Robert Wesby (c1927-1988), during the Civil Rights movement. The piece is based on the gospel song “I Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed on Jesus).”\nIn July 1988, the body of Rev. 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