Watch the Trailer for HBO’s ‘Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary’

One in all rock’s most easygoing, gleefully teased and retrospectively celebrated subgenres will obtain the feature-length therapy in HBO’s upcoming Music Field: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary.

Directed by Garret Worth (HBO’s Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage) and government produced by the Ringer’s Invoice Simmons (HBO’s Andre the Big, Showbiz Children), Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary will debut on HBO on Nov. 29 at 9 p.m. ET and be accessible to stream on Max.

You may watch the trailer for Music Field: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary under.

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‘Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary’ Is Packed With ’70s and ’80s Gentle Rock Stars

The documentary will chronicle the rise of the breezy West Coast sound that dominated the airwaves within the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, minting stars equivalent to Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Steely Dan and Toto. Many of those artists had been veteran session musicians who took their cues from jazz, funk and R&B, funneling these types into a brand new pressure of slick, assiduously crafted pop-rock.

Though these artists scored quite a few hits throughout their heyday, many struggled to outlive within the age of MTV. “The ‘video killed the radio star’ factor, it was simply completely true in my case,” Cross laments within the trailer, whereas McDonald provides: “I anticipated to be completely forgotten by the top of the ‘80s.”

These artists’ crucial and business fortunes took a flip within the twenty first century, when a 2005 internet collection referred to as Yacht Rock led to a widespread reappraisal of the style. Whereas there’s a light-weight ribbing inherent within the “yacht rock” designation, the style’s largest stars and songs are beloved by hundreds of thousands, and so they stay the soundtrack to many followers’ lives.