Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, review: an affectionate voyage into a much-mocked music genre
What is Yacht Rock? After watching the feature-length Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary (Sky Documentaries), I still couldn’t tell you exactly. But I thoroughly enjoyed the programme anyway.
The Current1d
Coffee Break: Yacht Rock
Enter Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary. The new HBO film looks at the breezy musical stylings of bands that ruled the airwaves of ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution2d
The Yacht Rock sub genre gets its origin story ‘dockumentary’ on Max
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.
‘It’s a vibe’: Inside the relaxing Yacht Rock revival
When documentarian Garret Price called up Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen to request an interview for his new film, the conversation did not go as planned. “I’ve been talking to a lot of people that have ...
American Songwriter3d
3 Yacht Rock Songs That Really Are Cool
The term “yacht rock” didn’t exist in the 1970s and early ’80s. Retroactively given to the music of The Doobie Brothers, Toto ...
Musician reveals the time he wrote a song while high, driving to Austin
In a new documentary about yacht rock, Christopher Cross talked about how "Ride Like the Wind" came to be. It happened on a ...