Four CD set. 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. 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" PT 1. 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.

Track List

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
21. Olivia Newton-John Magic
22. Nicolette Larson Lotta Love
23. Laura Allan Opening Up to You
24. Carole Bayer Sager It's the Falling in Love
25. Carly Simon It Keeps You Runnin'
26. Curved Air Touch of Tequila
27. Lauren Wood Save the Man
28. Samantha Sang Emotion
29. Rajie Last Chance
30. Evie Sands Lady of the Night
31. Maria Muldaur Open Your Eyes
32. Holly Near Back Off
33. Kiki Dee Love Is a Crazy Feeling
34. Akiko Yano Telephone Line
35. Diane Tell Tes Yeux
36. Wendy Waldman Cold Back on Me
37. Karla Bonoff Someone to Lay Down Beside Me
38. Elkie Brooks Fool If You Think It's Over
39. Maxus Nobody's Business
40. Toto Georgy Porgy
41. Average White Band Isn't It Strange
42. Greg Guidry Show Me Your Love
43. Dane Donahue Freedom
44. Randy Crawford That's How Heartaches Are Made
45. Paul Anka Walk a Fine Line
46. Robbie Dupree Brooklyn Girls
47. Little Feat Red Streamliner
48. Robert Palmer Every Kinda People
49. Larsen-Feiten Band Who'll Be the Fool Tonight
50. Lake Key to the Rhyme [Album Version]
51. Leo Sayer Easy to Love
52. Amy Holland How Do I Survive
53. Pages the Sailor's Song
54. Airplay Nothin' You Can Do About It
55. Bill Champlin Keys to the Kingdom
56. The Jones Girls Nights Over Egypt
57. Michael McDonald I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)
58. Grover Washington Jr. And Bill Withers Just the Two of Us
59. Kenny Rankin Creepin'
60. Steve Winwood Hold on
61. Chicago Wishing You Were Here
62. Lonette McKee Maybe There Are Reasons
63. Ned Doheny Get It Up for Love
64. Loggins ; Messina Move on
65. JD Souther Midnight Prowl
66. Michael Sembello Lay Back (Menage À Trois)
67. Robert Palmer Give Me An Inch
68. Kool ; the Gang Too Hot
69. Pousette-Dart Band Winterness
70. Bernie Leadon Glass Off
71. Steve Miller Band Sacrifice
72. Christopher Cross Sailing