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Let me get real with you all. Let me just lay it on the line.

Yacht Rock can be pretty damn white sometimes.

It's true.

We're listening to Christopher Cross's never be the same. Not a lot of soul here.

I mean it's good. Yeah, it's great. It's great. It's great. But this is what I feel like I'm running through the park with Billy Joel.

That's an image that people usually have when they think about Yacht Rock.

They say, you know, I say Yacht Rock, you see some bearded white guy in a white suit playing

a white guitar and drinking white wine in a white void where dreams go to become white dreams.

On a white boat.

But Yacht Rock owes its soul to the company store and that company is Motown Records Incorporated.

The best Yacht Rock artist grew up gurgling and swallowing this most delectable blend of hard,

this most delectable blend of hardcore soul and light fluffy pop from Michael McDonald's

deep yarl to Kenny Logan's girl growl to Christopher Cross.

Well, I'm sure he had some black friends, and I'm sure that they all loved great soul music.

So alongside of these white boys bringing the Motown out in popular rock and roll, they were parallel performers producing a very, very smooth tributary of

Yacht rock, much closer to the gentlest of genre's soul roots.

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