‘Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary’ Director on Genre’s Unique Origin and Misconceptions

To paraphrase crooner Michael McDonald, one of the signature players of the music style, Yacht Rock has a place in our lives.

The smooth-sounding music from the West Coast, a mix of pop/rock with jazz and R&B melodies, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s (think Christopher Cross, Toto, Kenny Loggins among others), is explored in Music Box’s Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, available Friday, November 29 on Max.