My Amazon Echo recently introduced me to “Yacht Rock,” a musical genre that I’d somehow never heard labelled quite that way. Soon after, I discovered that the Love channel on Sirius/XM is, in fact, a Yacht Rock channel (it’s #70 on your satellite dial, recently moved from #17).
Yacht Rock has been called the West Coast Sound or, more generally, Soft Rock, and is typified by smooth, melodic, catchy songs with high production values and clean vocals. Think Kenny Loggins, The Doobie Brothers, Christopher Cross, Hall & Oates, you get the picture.