I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock

Total Seasons :1Total Episodes : 2

Offers a reappraisal of "yacht rock", a critically neglected era of music popularized by a boom in FM radio stations and its smooth sound. The gleaming yacht sound was, in part, always defined by a group of LA-based session players and composers who worked across a range of yacht bands, informing their specific tone and level of musicianship. Some of these artists talk about the yacht phenomenon...

I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock

Episodes(2)

1. Episode 1

Katie Puckrik begins a voyage through a halcyon period of Los Angeles studio craft when studio-based artists like The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan and Hall & Oates produced the smoothest R&B and married it to adult themes about longing, aspiration and melancholy.

Air Date : 2019-06-14

2. Episode 2

Katie charts the progress of yacht rock through the 1980s, when it became the soundtrack to America in the Reagan era, and when artists like Toto, Hall & Oates and George Benson created a technicolor second wave of a super smooth sound.

Air Date : 2019-06-21