Marina Rock

I know that Yacht Rock has been a burgeoning undercurrent on the musical radar of record diggers for quite sometime, what with Fleetwood Mac and Bread providing soft rock for the ages, but what are the implications, transgressions, and transcendent moments of yacht rock?

Marina Rock. A Marina is a place where a lot of yachts sit tied to docks, bobbing up and down in the waves, glistening in eternal sunset mode. What are the implications of this you may ask? Well, the late seventies had an answer. A plurality of answers. An armada of yachts, anchored, chilling, chilling in the marina with sunsets, caressed and massaged by boat shoes. Marinas are places where you are either arriving or departing, lounging, reflecting or planning. Contemplative, introspective, serene.

Mexican Summer (Who knew they were an imprint of Kemado!?) just reissued this superb example of AM radio pop, soft rock private pressing from Georgia 1976. The album is Music and Dreams by Robert Lester Folsom, and it will sweep you away in a dreamy ocean of acoustic guitar and Californian, Neil Young via the Eagles, singer songwriter waves.

Another gem for you all to keep an eye out for will be sitting in the budget bin at a record store near you. Ian Matthews was in a band called Plainsong whose In Search of Amelia Earhart is a crowning achievement in the annals of soft rock lore.

So keep your eyes peeled to the horizon my brethren, and you too will know peace, love, and yachting for it is summer in winter. All hands on deck.