Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=66220&ordering=-airdate
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(There It Is)\" by Tag Team and \"Rebel Without a Pause\" by Public Enemy.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586750, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586750/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:55:12-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Opus de Soul", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2226bbc4-ce74-498e-8869-6a9e3e5bd93c", "artist": "Steve Cropper, Pops Staples & Albert King", "artist_ids": [ "4387a8ed-8a80-453c-a863-73dc0b23900c", "b70b23f2-a310-4f08-8ec2-a45d3cc27bc1", "10f89195-3af1-46f5-aa36-504aa3309f5a" ], "album": "Jammed Together", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "e57a671c-15fd-30a7-9ab0-e0bef7861632", "labels": [ "Stax" ], "label_ids": [ "3d60c9cf-c020-49e8-a803-2189c146b880" ], "release_date": "1969-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "About Steve Cropper as a guitarist: (1)His chord voicings often leaned on open strings and simple triads, creating a raw, earthy sound that matched the emotional directness of soul music.\n(2)His fills were conversational, like a friend chiming in at just the right moment. They never distracted from the singer; instead, they reinforced the vocal line.\n(3)His tone was clean, bright, and unadorned. He rarely used effects, preferring the natural sound of his Fender Telecaster or Esquire through a tube amp. :https://www.culturesonar.com/appreciating-steve-cropper-a-master-of-concision-and-taste/\n--\nThis song was written by Alvertis Isbell (Al Bell), producer and co-owner of Stax Records.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586751, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586751/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:54:26-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "Cropper was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 with his Booker T. & the MGs bandmates; he was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.\n\nHe was nominated for seven Grammy Awards over the years, most recently for Best Contemporary Blues Album for 2021's Fire It Up.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3586749, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586749/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:50:56-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Hard to Handle", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "38d33ba5-d91a-497e-ad53-29a33efc6aa7", "artist": "The Black Crowes", "artist_ids": [ "02ceff75-7363-493e-a78d-912dc86c7460" ], "album": "Shake Your Money Maker", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "456a8f06-5f7f-3c30-9be9-111355526469", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1990-01-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This was the only cover song on The Black Crowes' debut album, which sold over five million copies.\n--\nSee a live performance in the video for \"Hard to Handle\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRcs_OzQb14", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586748, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586748/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:45:07-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Protect Ya Neck", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "27517d83-e7dd-4c86-a414-18dc0d95c94a", "artist": "Wu-Tang Clan", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Protect Ya Neck", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b3e96ab4-bd5f-34b5-b5d2-ca4cd1c78fc8", "labels": [ "Loud Records" ], "label_ids": [ "32f6ca53-2be0-4dcd-8c08-e46eb6a018aa" ], "release_date": "1992-12-14", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For the drums on this song, producer RZA sampled \"a stone-cold soul classic—Otis Redding’s 'Hard to Handle.'\": https://create.routenote.com/blog/how-rza-produced-the-debut-wu-tang-clan-record-protect-ya-neck/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586747, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586747/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:38:01-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Symphony", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "64af2d13-d5ec-4f40-aaa6-c8587221428f", "artist": "Marley Marl feat. 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Check out this interview to learn more: https://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/2013/09/11/221440934/marley-marl-on-the-bridge-wars-ll-cool-j-and-discovering-sampling\n--\nMarley Marl produced this track and sampled the hook from Otis Redding's \"Hard to Handle.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586746, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586746/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:35:48-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Hard to Handle", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ea659313-9cd3-44a2-9c51-bbdb96e58bca", "artist": "Otis Redding", "artist_ids": [ "82b1f5fd-cd31-41a9-b5d4-7e33f0eb9751" ], "album": "The Immortal Otis Redding", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "1f8e1ab8-c846-3e92-98c5-e84add4d6705", "labels": [ "Elektra" ], "label_ids": [ "873f9f75-af68-4872-98e2-431058e4c9a9" ], "release_date": "1968-06-15", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Steve Cropper produced this track, which was written by Otis Redding, Al Bell, and Alvertis Isbell.\n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586745, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586745/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:31:24-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Here to Go", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "5a54f049-0966-4e29-a2be-13b46e487fd4", "artist": "DEVO", "artist_ids": [ "d2db1078-c170-4e22-b261-14f3ad60a690" ], "album": "Shout", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "0e4bf223-8cfe-3206-b78e-a4a814d8a85f", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "1984-10-09", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Yes, DEVO, too, sampled the hook from the Steve Cropper co-produced \"Land of 1000 Dances.\"\n--\nHere's the quite strange video for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6RwHjlqsx4", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586744, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586744/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:28:54-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Land of a Thousand Dances", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "91331364-b509-43dc-92b7-520fd21b8458", "artist": "Ike & Tina Turner", "artist_ids": [ "1c7b3786-b99a-40ab-81e4-f3056da19e13" ], "album": "Get Yer Ya‐Ya’s Out! 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However, it was Wilson Pickett’s 1966 cover version that became the most well-known and enduring rendition of the song.\n--\nOf course, Steve Cropper was one of the producers of this classic.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586741, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586741/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:14:48-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Knock on Wood", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ae5ffbb2-6664-4f09-adc0-75649d5b2fa7", "artist": "David Bowie", "artist_ids": [ "5441c29d-3602-4898-b1a1-b77fa23b8e50" ], "album": "Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles ’74)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "33f6e7ae-91ed-37ff-aca7-04b2016661b7", "labels": [ "Warner Music Japan" ], "label_ids": [ "26ea8229-7cf7-4482-8dae-15589ceb5398" ], "release_date": "1990-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "David Bowie performed ‘Knock On Wood’ during the Diamond Dogs Tour and Soul Tour in 1974. His version was released on the David Live album.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586740, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586740/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:11:16-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/590c6eb7-a59e-4e35-8cb8-2f0e3407e715/12659667565-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/590c6eb7-a59e-4e35-8cb8-2f0e3407e715/12659667565-250.jpg", "song": "Knock on Wood", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "9becf75e-1762-4b79-b992-355fdaeae90d", "artist": "Amii Stewart", "artist_ids": [ "8d1d5ded-96ed-4b5f-9cf0-a2174a2322f0" ], "album": "Knock on Wood", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "0dd65175-8dcf-4338-9cea-4d18e94a5bf2", "labels": [ "Hansa" ], "label_ids": [ "3cfa65af-d11c-4337-843c-0b6d4ca385d3" ], "release_date": "1979-02-13", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Amy Paulette \"Amii\" Stewart is an American disco and soul singer who found prominence with her 1979 U.S. Billboard number 1 hit cover of the Steve Cropper- Eddie Floyd song \"Knock on Wood\", often considered a classic of the disco genre.\n--\nWatch her perform this song live on \"The Midnight Special\" in 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb3P96PlCNc", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586739, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586739/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:08:38-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/4269cab6-2952-43cf-8813-3eb7059ec6c3/6693131507-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/4269cab6-2952-43cf-8813-3eb7059ec6c3/6693131507-250.jpg", "song": "A Deeper Shade of Soul", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "0ba9ac75-9fd9-4220-a667-bf5d4d5ec657", "artist": "Ray Barretto", "artist_ids": [ "169153fd-ba80-401a-8ccd-2825efaf9155" ], "album": "Acid", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "82210a1f-badf-3477-a6b1-bc8efcddd610", "labels": [ "Fania" ], "label_ids": [ "a00f1d54-2e47-492b-b24b-3b994b2ba0c4" ], "release_date": "1968-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song by percussionist Ray Barretto sampled the hook from the Steve Cropper co-penned \"Knock On Wood.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586738, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586738/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T13:04:36-08:00", "show": 65287, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65287/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "If I Had No Loot", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ac7f6adf-9239-4023-a1b3-1542878d238c", "artist": "Tony! Toni! 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On OG Thursday today, we are remembering the work of legendary guitarist, producer, and songwriter Steve Cropper, who has died at age 84: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/arts/music/steve-cropper-dead.html Thanks soo much for being here with us today!\n--\nSteve Cropper co-wrote this classic with Eddie Floyd. \n--\n\"Knock On Wood\" was written in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee (now The National Civil Rights Museum). Steve Cropper stated in interviews that there was a lightning storm the night that he and Eddie wrote the song, hence the lyrics 'It's like thunder, lightning, The way you love me is frightening'. The song was based on another song co-written by Cropper, the Wilson Pickett version of \"In the Midnight Hour\" (1965), having the same chord progression \"only played in reverse\".", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586736, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586736/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T12:58:10-08:00", "show": 65286, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65286/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "TANGARA", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Hugh Hardie & Etherwood", "artist_ids": [], "album": "TANGARA", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Thanks for listening! Check me out on my usual Overnight slot Tuesday 1-5am (or in the archive anytime) <3 <3 <3", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3586735, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586735/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-04T12:54:30-08:00", "show": 65286, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65286/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Painkiller", "track_id": "67180013-bf0a-4657-bd91-13fed27f3520", "recording_id": "209b6581-f14d-42be-a65d-98e3626b5e1a", "artist": "London Elektricity", "artist_ids": [ "0356daee-ec48-4495-bc3e-460b8a5eacad" ], "album": "Lunatics & Legends", "release_id": "cf989e42-cb57-471f-bac4-55fcb4a268ef", "release_group_id": "d3773e4b-aa55-4bba-bb21-4f8251ba18f0", "labels": [ "Fast Soul Music" ], "label_ids": [ "61ec3d50-293e-4e74-9999-a3c07f1b35cc" ], "release_date": "2025-11-13", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "London Elektricity is a producer, DJ & record label owner from South London. Crafting & curating nothing but drum & bass music with soul.\n\nhttps://londonelek.bandcamp.com/track/painkiller", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
