Yacht Rock
Listen and laugh, listen ironically or just listen — because it’s damn good music.
One day early, here is your Monday Morning Playlist.
As the summer concludes and you’re loading up the yacht to go celebrate Labor Day, be sure to bring your music.
Your Yacht Rock.
If you don’t have any, I’m here to help (can’t help with the yacht though).
Believe it or not, there was a time when FM radio stations played almost anything, cocaine wasn’t considered addictive and AIDS didn’t exist. Music was made and played for joy and wasn’t solely driven by the profit motive.
Yacht Rock is of that era. The sound channels the famous Laurel Canyon sound that begat CSN (sometimes Y), Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, The Eagles, etc. Not quite the ‘60s and not yet all in the ‘80s, Yacht Rock is nestled in the ‘70s…give or take. I suspect Yacht Rock was meant to be more cheeky than derogatory. In either case, it failed. Yacht Rock is kinda cool.
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