I’m on a boat
Nov
15
It’s not that we didn’t like the soft rock of the late 1970s and early 1980s before, it’s just that Yacht Rock took our appreciation for the “sweet Jesus, that’s smooth” stylings of artists like Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Daryl Hall, John Oates and others to a levels we couldn’t previously have imagined. So maybe we forgot how good smooth music could be (and maybe we never really knew in the first place), but it took a little bit of ridiculous humor to remind us. Yacht Rock, a musical answer to the film Anchorman, lovingly–and hilariously–fictionalizes the hit-making music machines of the ’70s. Believe us when we say that if you watch enough episodes you can’t help but let a couple of those hits sneak you’re your iTunes playlist. And now that Loggins has paired up with Jim Messina for the pair’s first world tour in three decades, you can hear the stuff live. Hits like “Danny’s Song” (“Even though, we ain’t got money, I’m so in love with you, honey…”) await. Grab your captain’s hats, yacht rockers.
