Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=67180&ordering=-airdate
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Read more about his tall tales here: https://www.openculture.com/2013/06/hear_a_young_bob_dylan_sing_11_songs_and_tell_tall_tales_on_a_1962_radio_show.html", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584958, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584958/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T10:31:02-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Roll On, John", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "377905f1-9535-47b2-a11f-89323c8b05bb", "artist": "Bob Dylan", "artist_ids": [ "72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8" ], "album": "Folksinger’s Choice", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d1fc0401-eaa7-3447-bcd5-1712096bf1a1", "labels": [ "Yellow Dog Records" ], "label_ids": [ "8768c2cb-8cb5-47e5-9bec-275aed229e51" ], "release_date": "1992-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "On a local New York City radio show called “Folksinger’s Choice” when Dylan was 20 years old. He improvised his own backstory. Read the full interview here:\nhttps://expectingrain.com/dok/int/gooding.html", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584957, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584957/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T10:28:24-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Song to Woody", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "300ecce8-94d3-4394-9e0b-d02efbb0b1f7", "artist": "Bob Dylan", "artist_ids": [ "72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8" ], "album": "Bob Dylan", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "6ac612a5-e815-3fed-b341-8b3faa351df4", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1962-03-19", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Written after a 19-year-old Dylan travelled to New York to try and meet Woodie Guthrie. After months of failing to find him, he finally met Guthrie in New Jersey and sang a few songs for him, eventually inspiring 'Song to Woody'.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584956, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584956/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T10:22:57-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/1a6fdee5-5250-4d6a-ad39-6cd9721862d7/2702411576-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/1a6fdee5-5250-4d6a-ad39-6cd9721862d7/2702411576-250.jpg", "song": "Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues (live)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1a5c614c-2ab6-4748-9c9a-6aea01dd955a", "artist": "Bob Dylan", "artist_ids": [ "72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8" ], "album": "The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1–3: 1961–1991: Rare and Unreleased", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "695c83f9-0919-32b0-af9a-4e58eaf0411e", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "1991-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A satirical song about communism and hypocrisy, Dylan was set to perform the song on the Ed Sullivan show but CBS forbade him, leading him to walk off set and the song to achieve notoriety.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584955, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584955/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T10:20:02-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/1a6fdee5-5250-4d6a-ad39-6cd9721862d7/2702411576-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/1a6fdee5-5250-4d6a-ad39-6cd9721862d7/2702411576-250.jpg", "song": "Walkin’ Down the Line", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "a1af4290-6e77-4ce0-8242-aabe944bd479", "artist": "Bob Dylan", "artist_ids": [ "72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8" ], "album": "The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1–3: 1961–1991: Rare and Unreleased", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "695c83f9-0919-32b0-af9a-4e58eaf0411e", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "1991-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song, originally recorded in ‘62, recounts the troubles of a hobo walking down some railroad tracks.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584954, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584954/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T10:15:42-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3584953, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584953/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T10:08:20-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "8a04b213-2cfb-434c-9d2e-7c5b4a8b1958", "artist": "The Staple Singers", "artist_ids": [ "3d49e36a-cc9e-411e-93c6-d1646ba5bd3a" ], "album": "What the World Needs Now Is Love", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d93bf563-09df-4d65-8ffa-d8a8f2a8288d", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "1968-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Their version of the Dylan song, originally written as a poem ; 2014 interview with Mavis about her family and the civil rights movement: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/12/302166519/mavis-staples-still-singing-the-civil-rights-soundtrack ; https://mavisstaples.com", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584952, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584952/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T10:03:40-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ae233dfc-bc6d-4cd8-a444-5c01c398a4f7", "artist": "Odetta", "artist_ids": [ "e81906c6-cba2-44ec-9e39-29737754d809" ], "album": "Odetta Sings Dylan", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "ab7a08d1-342f-33e5-b98e-2da89a59aa55", "labels": [ "RCA Victor" ], "label_ids": [ "b3f4e6a5-ece0-43be-a530-68ad0d49fee8" ], "release_date": "1965-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Her version, from an album of Dylan tunes ; Odetta performing \"Blowin’ In The Wind\" live in 2005 with Liam Clancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJy8UbAt0X0 ; the great activist and musician passed away in 2008: https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/none/a-new-biography-of-odetta-reveals-a-difficult-life-well-sung", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584951, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584951/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T09:58:24-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Tomorrow Is a Long Time", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "39c07d35-7234-4fae-9d2a-22068b346050", "artist": "Elvis Presley", "artist_ids": [ "01809552-4f87-45b0-afff-2c6f0730a3be" ], "album": "Spinout", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "7dbccaa7-78d8-3266-80de-babc63416ad7", "labels": [ "RCA Victor" ], "label_ids": [ "b3f4e6a5-ece0-43be-a530-68ad0d49fee8" ], "release_date": "1966-11-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The King heard Odetta’s version of the Bob Dylan song and was inspired to cover it himself. Presley was Dylan’s musical hero and he said this was \"the one recording I treasure the most.\"\nhttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/elvis-presley-bob-dylan-cover-tomorrow-long-time/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584950, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584950/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T09:55:54-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Green Rocky Road", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c7a68aa7-53e8-40b2-9a82-bdd458f94145", "artist": "Tim Hardin", "artist_ids": [ "8f4be405-84d5-4cac-bdf9-bf02d9e04962" ], "album": "Tim Hardin 1", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b1dc278a-ddeb-36ce-856d-ea633649e9eb", "labels": [ "Verve Folkways" ], "label_ids": [ "0756df09-5c1c-4660-9161-a4490f28cbfe" ], "release_date": "1966-07-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Dave Van Ronk cover off of Hardin’s debut album.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584949, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584949/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T09:53:53-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Promenade In Green", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1875b049-b70c-413c-be7e-f38568bfa1df", "artist": "Ricky Nelson", "artist_ids": [ "0b511854-c21c-4af1-9c31-e3fc178ded61" ], "album": "Another Side of Rick", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "8f296b7e-7dc8-495f-872c-7b1b1c2c5b41", "labels": [ "Decca Records" ], "label_ids": [ "f18f3b31-8263-4de3-966a-fda317492d3d" ], "release_date": "1967-11-13", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Nelson’s sixteenth studio album diverted from his usual image, embracing both folk and pop.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584948, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584948/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T09:50:36-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Green Rocky Road", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "6d8deaa6-828c-45d6-9dd3-63ae6ace1567", "artist": "Karen Dalton", "artist_ids": [ "09e1f320-5f26-415a-ad19-003f6e9969e8" ], "album": "1966", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "eb059312-05e6-4997-9790-48d38cb1a90c", "labels": [ "Megaphone Music" ], "label_ids": [ "363f5ca0-0a04-4ded-846c-5ab283e5bc3f" ], "release_date": "2012-01-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Dalton's cover of the Dave Van Ronk song, based on a traditional folk melody and written by Len Chandler and the beat poet, Bob Kaufman. \n\n https://www.undertheradarmag.com/blog/under-heard_karen_daltons_green_rocky_road ; new documentary about the influential artist: https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/karen-dalton-in-my-own-time ; film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxE98tNxko", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3584947, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584947/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T09:46:35-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3584946, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584946/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-30T09:38:44-08:00", "show": 65252, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65252/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Motorcycle Song", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "b7c343f9-ed59-453e-9380-1adaa1a1e944", "artist": "Arlo Guthrie", "artist_ids": [ "b8efe8ac-45db-4a71-bb51-c1503986172f" ], "album": "Arlo", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "71c117fb-3373-4815-ad1f-4ef2354d5ae4", "labels": [ "Reprise Records" ], "label_ids": [ "af6d6f49-2b4d-40fe-86d4-241906772b59" ], "release_date": "1968-07-22", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Guthrie's “Motorcycle Song” differentiated from other motorcycle songs, constructing a persona of an “easy-going, laid back storyteller who speaks in the vocabulary of hippie culture.”\n\nA cultural history of “The Motorcycle Song” and more on Woody Guthrie’s son here: http://motorcyclestudies.org/volume-14-2018/a-cultural-history-of-the-motorcycle-song-by-arlo-guthrie-misao-dean/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
