Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic, who listed Steely Dan's song "Gaucho" in his top 30 list of great Yacht Rock songs, most likely understood the ambiguity of the lyrics juxtaposed with the ironic ...
In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.
Four years after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win, President-elect ...
Retro appreciation for “yacht rock” emerged in the 2000s thanks to a viral pre-YouTube web video series of the same name, ...
If you are into yacht rock, then check out these three contemporary yacht rock songs that will remind you of the good ole ...
I sail a sea comprised solely of sailors. To my port and starboard stand 200 other swaying souls in the concert venue, all ...
“Yet there’s this whole other scene happening with Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross and Steely Dan and the Toto guys that I don’t think gets as much recognition.” What is Yacht Rock?
Artists have long resisted being boxed in by labels, a sentiment now thrust into the spotlight by the release of ': A DOCKmentary'.
A Dockumentary," now out on Max, explores the sub genre of jazz and R&B-inflected 1970s and early 1980s rock that was named decades after the fact.
Steely Dan's greatest songs are hard to condense into a short list, but we're particularly fond of these four tracks from ...