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From 1976 to 1984, the radio airwaves were dominated by really smooth music, also known as yacht rock.

These yacht rockers docked a remarkable fleet of number one hits,

and every song has a story behind it.

Wow.

Well, let me tell you one.

You care to elaborate on that at all because it's kind of vague.

I'm just reading the copy that you wrote on that original script. I think you were being

intentionally obtuse. I mean I think we confuse a lot of people with such a vague description of

our genre that we made our web show about. Well once you make your art and you send your creation out into the world,

you can't control how your audience reacts to it anymore.

I know, but it's become like, oh, it's from the 70s and it's super slow.

It must be Yacht Rock.

Seems kind of arbitrary.

It looks like a theory in a lot.

Seems like a good episode of an arbitrary genre's podcast.

Well, check out this bootleg sweet freedom I found.

This is not the Michael McDonald version.

No, this is a sweet guy.

Oh man, this isn't bad.

That just goes to show you how talented Michael McDonald is, but today we're going to talk

about artists that don't belong in the yacht rock genre, but still some of them make great music,

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