In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.
It was followed by Times Like These in 1996 and caught the attention of Bruce Springsteen, who in 2014 raved on NPR, 'Check out the two Slim Dunlap records, because they’re just beautiful rock ...
The Yacht Rock crowd keeps trying to herd squirrelly eccentric Todd Rundgren (“Can We Still Be Friends”) and fussy butts Hall and Oates (“Maneater”) in the Yacht Rock bin, but they are both too Philly ...