Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=41800&ordering=-airdate
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King)", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593970, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593970/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:58:59-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/74b467d6-c01b-407e-9b9a-1563967d19fc/17290252016-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/74b467d6-c01b-407e-9b9a-1563967d19fc/17290252016-250.jpg", "song": "Wrap Yourself in a Christmas Package", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "4bf96909-de12-41f3-b913-3436822a462c", "artist": "Charles Brown", "artist_ids": [ "dbc9229a-6fb7-43b1-9763-df1e87112a93" ], "album": "Sings Christmas Songs", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "2a705b52-0415-30b6-80cb-deb8cd8222cc", "labels": [ "King Records" ], "label_ids": [ "73693b2f-37bc-4076-8018-c21465945054" ], "release_date": "1961-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Released as an LP in 1961, and reissued many times since the original mono pressing.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593969, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593969/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:56:04-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Please Come Home for Christmas", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "8f28903e-d1d8-4f6d-89a9-af5d4bceb5a5", "artist": "The Insight", "artist_ids": [ "01080b25-b92a-47b2-b7f8-fe68fc0ffca4" ], "album": "Blue Yule", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "762ceec8-38e8-31b4-ad87-f92c3326c80c", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "1991-10-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Recorded in 1966 with Johnny Winter on guitar, written by Charles Brown.\nLive video from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlxM8GCN3nY", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593968, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593968/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:53:21-08:00", "show": 65438, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65438/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Please Come Home for Christmas", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "a69776bc-a659-4ca6-a9da-1c1e5dee7821", "artist": "Charles Brown", "artist_ids": [ "dbc9229a-6fb7-43b1-9763-df1e87112a93" ], "album": "Please Come Home for Christmas", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "38d765ab-b92a-4eb2-8b42-acfc18b6dc9e", "labels": [ "Gusto" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1988-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Written and released in 1960 by the West Coast blues singer and pianist. Covered by The Eagles in 1978.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3593967, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593967/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T09:50:29-08:00", "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": "47d7086c-c9af-4ffb-ab8e-58b84e47d1ba", "artist": "Charles Brown", "artist_ids": [ "dbc9229a-6fb7-43b1-9763-df1e87112a93" ], "album": "Merry Christmas Baby", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "661fe13c-b715-3c4d-acfd-e7e749d08629", "labels": [ "Big Town VA" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1977-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Featuring Johnny Moore's 3 Blazers, recorded in 1947. 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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