HBO is gearing as much as launch a brand new documentary as a part of its Music Field movie sequence. The cheekily titled Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary is out November 29. It chronicles the rise of soft-rock within the Seventies and its unlikely reevaluation over the previous decade, with extra profiles of key artists from the style, resembling Michael McDonald, Steely Dan, Kenny Loggins, Toto, and Christopher Cross. Watch the trailer for it under.
Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary was directed by Garret Value, who additionally helmed Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, Daisy Jones & the Six, and Love, Antosha. It’s produced by Garret, Adam Gibbs, and Madison Cross, and executive-produced by Jody Gerson, Marc Cimino, and Invoice Simmons. Additionally co-executive-producing are Geoff Chow and Sean Fennessey.
Along with the aforementioned bands and musicians starring within the documentary, it additionally options interviews with De La Soul’s Prince Paul, Paramore and Vampire Weekend touring guitarist Brian Robert Jones, Thundercat, Questlove, Mac DeMarco, and Fred Armisen, amongst different music producers, journalists, and critics.
See the place the yacht-rock classics land on Pitchfork’s record “The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s.”
