1x1 Episode 1

6/14/2019•59 min•I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock

Season 1 Episodes

2 episodes

Season:

59 min

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.

58 min

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.