It’s a late May afternoon in Nashville, and the Doobie Brothers are holed up in a nondescript, black-curtained rehearsal space along the banks of the Cumberland River working on a live version of a new song titled “Angels and Mercy.” It’s a song about overcoming demons, and Patrick Simmons, who …
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If you’ve ever plumbed the placid seas of yacht rock — that distinct style of jazz-influenced soft pop and rock that surfaced in Southern California in the late Seventies — you know it’s filled with fools. “There are so many of these songs about expressing your feelings — the fool …
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The gentle rise, fall, and revival of Seventies soft rock rolls along like a boat amongst the waves in the new trailer Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, arriving Nov. 29 on HBO. Directed by Garret Price, Yacht Rock looks at the history and legacy of this genre of music, which was …
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For all its surface smoothness, yacht rock —and the artists who created it over the last few decades — can be turbulent below deck. Some of the musicians and singers associated with the genre (whether they want to be linked to it or not) can have dark sides, illicit pasts, …
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It’s difficult to capture in just a few hours the depth of the influence Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson have cast over the industry through their legendary Motown catalog, but the 2023 MusiCares Dinner looked to do just that, celebrating one of the most prolific creative collaborations — and one …
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Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan will unite for a massive co-headlining tour this summer. McDonald will kick off the trek with a solo gig June 19th at the Motor City Casino in Detroit, Michigan, though Khan will join him the next night at the Rose Music Center at the Heights …
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