Various Artists - Katie Puckrik Presents: ‘A Yacht Rock Odyssey’ [signed deluxe packaging 4CD]

Edsel

£41.38

Format: 4 x CD
Catalogue No.: EDSL0201X
Barcode: 5014797911802
Release Date: 30 Aug 2024
Genre: Rock

‘A Yacht Rock Odyssey’ has been curated by TV and radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist, Katie Puckrik into four separate musical voyages of discovery that are the epitome of cool sophistication, with smooth grooves polished to perfection by session musicians and producers at their creative peak. As Katie’s intro to the genre draws you in, each of the tracks has been annotated to provide background, as she recalls her BBC TV series “I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock”.

For this connoisseurs’ collection, Katie has gathered 72 of the smartest, deepest cuts in the Yacht canon, along with classic tracks from the supremos of smooth. In compiling this set, her choices reflect compatibility of vibes, a musical kinship across the era, and a whiff of adults-only ennui.

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• What is ‘Yacht Rock’? Yacht Rock is the affectionate nickname for the lush West Coast sound of the 1970s and 80s. Broadly speaking, it’s soft rock jazzed up with soulful flourishes, twinned with aspirational lyrics yearning for a better life. A categorisation of grouping songs with a shared DNA, years after they were originally recorded!

• Yacht Rock is enjoying reappraisal by a new generation of music lovers driven by the genre's sonic sophistication, as well as nostalgia for a Miami Vice-tinted past.

• ‘A Yacht Rock Odyssey’ has been curated by TV and radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist, Katie Puckrik into four separate musical voyages of discovery that are the epitome of cool sophistication, with smooth grooves polished to perfection by session musicians and producers at their creative peak. As Katie’s intro to the genre draws you in, each of the tracks has been annotated to provide background, as she recalls her BBC TV series “I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock”; Pt1.

• Featuring the Artists long associated with the genre including Michael McDonald, Toto and Average White Band, they sit alongside Boz Scaggs, Carly Simon, Robert Palmer, Robbie Dupree, Stephen Bishop and the Pointer Sisters, with a sprinkling of stardust by Olivia Newton-John, Chicago and Christopher Cross, playing the kind of music piped through quadrophonic speakers on a Sunseeker, as it heads out to sea!

• For this connoisseurs’ collection, Katie has gathered 72 of the smartest, deepest cuts in the Yacht canon, along with classic tracks from the supremos of smooth. In compiling this set, her choices reflect compatibility of vibes, a musical kinship across the era, and a whiff of adults-only ennui.

❖ CD1 Luxury Yacht — some of the most beloved West Coast classics this side of Malibu.
❖ CD2 Sirens Of The Sea — female singer-songwriters and interpreters who broadened the palette of Yacht Rock.
❖ CD3 Deep Dive — shining a light on rare Yacht treasures.
❖ CD4 Night Sail — a smoochy set to keep you and the moon company.

CD1: LUXURY YACHT
1 Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind [45 Version]
2 Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right
3 George Benson - Turn Your Love Around
4 Carly Simon - You Belong To Me
5 Kenny Loggins - This Is It
6 Raydio- You Can’t Change That
7 Average White Band - Whatcha Gonna Do for Me
8 Bobby Caldwell - What You Won’t Do For Love
9 Boz Scaggs - Lowdown [Single Version]
10 Robbie Dupree - Steal Away
11 Al Jarreau - Mornin’
12 Pablo Cruise - What'cha Gonna Do?
13 Gino Vannelli - People Gotta Move
14 Ace - How Long
15 Stephen Bishop - Save It For A Rainy Day
16 The Pointer Sisters - He’s So Shy
17 Steve Winwood - Valerie (original 1982 recording)
18 Player - Baby Come Back
19 Chaka Khan - Through The Fire [45 Version]
20 Toto - Africa

CD2: SIRENS OF THE SEA
1 Olivia Newton-John - Magic
2 Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
3 Laura Allan - Opening Up To You
4 Carole Bayer Sager - It’s The Falling In Love
5 Carly Simon - It Keeps You Runnin’
6 Curved Air - Touch Of Tequila
7 Lauren Wood - Save The Man
8 Samantha Sang - Emotion
9 Rajie - Last Chance
10 Evie Sands - Lady Of The Night
11 Maria Muldaur - Open Your Eyes
12 Holly Near - Back Off
13 Kiki Dee - Love Is A Crazy Feeling
14 Akiko Yano - Telephone Line
15 Diane Tell - Tes Yeux
16 Wendy Waldman - Cold Back On Me
17 Karla Bonoff - Someone To Lay Down Beside Me
18 Elkie Brooks - Fool If You Think It’s Over

CD3: DEEP DIVE
1 Maxus - Nobody’s Business
2 Toto - Georgy Porgy
3 Average White Band - Isn’t It Strange
4 Greg Guidry - Show Me Your Love
5 Dane Donahue - Freedom
6 Randy Crawford - That’s How Heartaches Are Made
7 Paul Anka - Walk A Fine Line
8 Robbie Dupree - Brooklyn Girls
9 Little Feat - Red Streamliner
10 Robert Palmer - Every Kinda People
11 Larsen-Feiten Band - Who’ll Be The Fool Tonight
12 Lake - Key To The Rhyme [Album Version]
13 Leo Sayer - Easy To Love
14 Amy Holland - How Do I Survive
15 Pages - The Sailor’s Song
16 Airplay - Nothin’ You Can Do About It
17 Bill Champlin - Keys To The Kingdom

CD4: NIGHT SAIL
1 The Jones Girls - Nights Over Egypt
2 Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You're Near)
3 Grover Washington Jr. And Bill Withers - Just The Two Of Us
4 Kenny Rankin - Creepin’
5 Steve Winwood - Hold On
6 Chicago - Wishing You Were Here
7 Lonette McKee - Maybe There Are Reasons
8 Ned Doheny - Get It Up For Love
9 Loggins & Messina - Move On
10 JD Souther - Midnight Prowl
11 Michael Sembello - Lay Back (Menage À Trois)
12 Robert Palmer - Give Me An Inch
13 Kool & The Gang - Too Hot
14 Pousette-Dart Band - Winterness
15 Bernie Leadon -Glass Off
16 Steve Miller Band - Sacrifice
17 Christopher Cross - Sailing