To wrap up our Beginner's Guide to Yacht Rock, I thought it would be worthwhile to look at how YR has endured in the work of newer artists. In recent years we've heard several mainstream artists try their hand at the genre: Harry Styles ("A…
Now that we've learned about the Top 25 Yacht Rock Songs, the Top 20 Yacht Rock Albums, and the Top 16 Yacht Rock Artists, and we've discussed the phenomenon of Yacht Rock Dabblers, we can declare The Most Yacht Rock Year Ever.I looked at f…
Once Yacht Rock proved itself to be a commercial force in the music industry the late '70s with songs by Christopher Cross and Doobie Brothers topping the charts, the floodgates opened. Several long-established artists decided to try their
We've talked about the songs and we've talked about the artists. Now let's talk about the albums. If a person wanted to build a killer Yacht Rock collection on vinyl, what records do they absolutely need to have?I kept this one simple. I av…
Something that strikes me as I look at this list is the way it undermines the perception that Yacht Rock is a California phenomenon. Yes, most of the records were made in L.A., but the artists that birthed and nurtured this particular sound…
When I decided to write about every single Billy Joel studio album I knew had a bit of a leg up in that I'd written reviews of a handful of his records already. What I didn't realize until just now was that those reviews were of albums that…