Yacht Rock is soulful, well-constructed music that just makes people happy. It's slicker than slick, enormously well-played music, from the melodically clever to the harmonically unexpected. You might have been a closet Yacht Rock fan all along and just didn't know it. These songs are as memorable as a sunset on the Santa Monica pier as you walk along with your baby, holding hands, your matching gold-tone bracelets jingling as the ocean breeze caresses your moustache, and the two of you stare out into the ever-deepening blue to think, in tandem: "Yeah, this is how it should always be".
16 Denver station KIMN-FM introduced a 'mellow rock' album format in 1975. If you've ever heard the Doobie Brothers fronted by Michael McDonald doing "What A Fool Believes", that's Yacht Rock. Soft rock reached its commercial peak in the mid-to-late 1970s with acts such as Toto, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Air Supply, Seals and Crofts, America and the reformed Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours (1977) was the best-selling album of the decade. We at Yacht Rock Revival are paying tribute to the definition of 70's light rock, collecting our favourite sounds, songs and grooves from an era when 'smooth' meant everything.
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