Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=68900&ordering=-airdate
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The beetle first destroyed crops in Mexico and worked its way up through the Southern states, and was able to survive many attempts by sharecroppers to eradicate it.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581887, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581887/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T11:13:30-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Boll Weevil", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Odetta", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Grain of Sand", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Vanguard" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1963-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song about a crop-devastating non-native beetle was sung as early as 1920, but became better known when Alan Lomax recorded Leadbelly’s version in 1934.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581886, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581886/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T11:09:52-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3581885, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581885/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T11:06:53-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/58cf3a7c-5e97-4511-b176-af929cfdb56e/35328404608-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/58cf3a7c-5e97-4511-b176-af929cfdb56e/35328404608-250.jpg", "song": "Stagolee", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "6986bd61-21c6-4230-99e4-a08d832137af", "artist": "Beck", "artist_ids": [ "309c62ba-7a22-4277-9f67-4a162526d18a" ], "album": "Avalon Blues: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "6a98c001-1f78-3d4c-a2ef-e8951de0d1f7", "labels": [ "Vanguard" ], "label_ids": [ "40998461-7dfe-4fe1-8ece-8547438c4938" ], "release_date": "2001-06-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Recorded in 1994 ; Beck says \"Devil's Haircut\" off of Odelay was his take on the Stagger Lee myth (in addition to this straightforward version) ; https://www.americanbluesscene.com/a-brief-history-of-stagger-lee-and-billy-lyons ; https://www.beck.com", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581884, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581884/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T11:03:10-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cfd1d924-0150-41eb-b2df-4b9fe95c8e8a/11410303451-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cfd1d924-0150-41eb-b2df-4b9fe95c8e8a/11410303451-250.jpg", "song": "Staggolee", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "47897b85-2130-4f78-a5f5-6345f39958f6", "artist": "Pacific Gas & Electric", "artist_ids": [ "7a1268cc-33a6-4889-bbad-a47b9ffc8339" ], "album": "Are You Ready?", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "513b92ee-a30a-342c-91f0-3ca3dc94b88b", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1970-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The L.A. band’s 1970 version of the song is based on the true story of “Stagger” Lee Shelton shooting a man Billy Lyons in the course of an argument in St. Louis, MS.\nhttps://missourilife.com/real-story-behind-bad-man-stagger-lee-2/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581882, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581882/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T10:58:11-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Stack‐A‐Lee, Parts 1 & 2", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "af91f39d-4057-4b2f-8d45-d6982a868c72", "artist": "Archibald feat. Dave Bartholomew", "artist_ids": [], "album": "The Complete New Orleans Sessions 1950-1952", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Krazy Kat" ], "label_ids": [ "bd8845ff-0af8-4a0b-90ac-33db962f7c61" ], "release_date": "1983-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "John Leon Gross known as Archibald had a hit with this song in 1950, reaching No. 10 on the R&B Billboard chart, making it the biggest hit of all the recorded versions at the time.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581881, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581881/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T10:55:13-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Stagger Lee", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3842525b-1dd5-4d22-bc30-d8469438cf1f", "artist": "The Isley Brothers", "artist_ids": [ "4a76400d-283f-492e-9754-18ef41755f81" ], "album": "The Famous Isley Brothers", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Hallmark" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1968-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Cincinnatti, OH brothers recorded their version of the true Mississippi story of Stagger Lee shooting Billy Lyons in 1895.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581880, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581880/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T10:53:00-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Stagger Lee", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "bf28ac2b-73a6-4c4b-a48b-594601a20535", "artist": "Shirley Ellis", "artist_ids": [ "68aafb3e-cfc2-4549-8dd5-e1d8753dd697" ], "album": "The Name Game", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b94a1ebd-b812-4343-9d53-c105d44007e4", "labels": [ "Congress" ], "label_ids": [ "3f7908d2-1047-4772-afff-5a84ca2e5e14" ], "release_date": "1965-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Best known for co-writing and performing the songs The Nitty Gritty and The Clapping Song, Ellis covered the traditional Mississippi murder ballad song for her second album.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581879, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581879/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T10:50:17-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Stagger Lee", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Teddy Hill", "artist_ids": [ "bd05f3cc-5b52-4872-bb29-f4c979dfecf9" ], "album": "Stagger Lee", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Single" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1967-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Another version of the murder ballad of “Stagger” Lee Shelton that took place in St Louis, MS in 1895.\nhttps://missourilife.com/real-story-behind-bad-man-stagger-lee-2/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581878, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581878/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T10:46:26-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ca2c4403-ea6a-4b0e-9207-1a0f7e5bc2ff/39108850225-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ca2c4403-ea6a-4b0e-9207-1a0f7e5bc2ff/39108850225-250.jpg", "song": "Stack‐A‐Lee", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "77314cdd-7c9e-4565-83d8-427c0a8745cd", "artist": "Dr. John", "artist_ids": [ "fe0e1895-aa84-47d9-8e5b-7930fc20709b" ], "album": "Dr. John’s Gumbo", "release_id": null, 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MS.\nhttps://missourilife.com/real-story-behind-bad-man-stagger-lee-2/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581874, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581874/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T10:31:33-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f0a4e11d-cfea-4dbe-b54f-2f17d9e29d6a/17941839016-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f0a4e11d-cfea-4dbe-b54f-2f17d9e29d6a/17941839016-250.jpg", "song": "When My Baby Left Me", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2226765e-8a7e-4780-bce0-9de24bad4f7d", "artist": "Willie Watson", "artist_ids": [ "6310db9e-f2c7-4e76-8af4-e56905993482" ], "album": "Folksinger Vol. 2", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "84f62aa5-70cf-47fa-a462-13532823ab1d", "labels": [ "Acony" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2017-09-15", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show's take on the Furry Lewis song.\nhttps://williewatson.bandcamp.com/album/folksinger-vol-2", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581873, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581873/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T10:28:44-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/401d66d2-e834-409a-8698-8bb8af0bd9a4/34968371707-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/401d66d2-e834-409a-8698-8bb8af0bd9a4/34968371707-250.jpg", "song": "Falling Down Blues", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "acb4c317-4b10-4a94-81d5-b9582f86b537", "artist": "Furry Lewis", "artist_ids": [ "56cc74c7-6a8c-42a4-87a1-59d6963b2c1f" ], "album": "In His Prime 1927-1928", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c37420a0-b7d9-37ff-b07e-c6dabbb54409", "labels": [ "Yazoo Records" ], "label_ids": [ 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He lost his leg while trying to hop a train. Recorded in the 1920s.\nhttps://folkways.si.edu/furry-lewis-rural-blues-performer/music/article/smithsonian", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581872, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581872/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T10:25:44-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Kassie Jones, Pt. 2", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Furry Lewis", "artist_ids": [ "56cc74c7-6a8c-42a4-87a1-59d6963b2c1f" ], "album": "1927-9: The Early Years", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Smithsonian Folkways" ], "label_ids": [ "a1bc50b9-4ef5-409d-9042-594d653f425a" ], "release_date": "1971-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "An early recording of the Casey/Kassie Jones folk song.\n\n\"Walter “Furry” Lewis was born in Greenville, Mississippi on March 6 in either 1891 (according to him) or 1899 (according to historians finding based on his 1900 census entry). 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