Yacht Rock "Deep Cuts" Channel now on Sirius/XM

[SamAdams76]

Many people are rabid fans of Yacht Rock but the one drawback was that the core playlist of the Yacht Rock genre was maybe 250-300 songs.

As great as those songs are, there are only so many times you can hear "Sailing" by Christopher Cross or "What A Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers before aficionados of smooth, polished, studio-perfect soft rock end up flipping over to Margaritaville, The Bridge or that No Shoes station run by Kenny Chesney so as to introduce a little Jimmy Buffet, Roberta Flack, Gordon Lightfoot or Little River Band into their ears.

Let's face it, the standard Yacht Rock playlist needed a little broadening.

Well Sirius/XM heard your concerns loud and clear over the limited playlist of Yacht Rock and has introduced "Yacht Rock Deep Cuts", now available for streaming only on Channel 311.

Now there are literally thousands of semi-obscure smooth tracks to absorb as you ply your yacht through the deep blue waters of Narragansett Bay or the Long Island Sound. Or like me, sit on your back deck reading a book on a hot summer day while WISHING you had a yacht to cruise on.

For example, pretty much the entire catalog of Steely Dan (perhaps the greatest Yacht Rock artist of all time) can be found here. Just in the past 24 hours, I have already heard "Pearl Of The Quarter", "Night by Night", "Chain Lightning" and "Your Gold Teeth II" by Steely Dan. Not to mention the impeccable cover of "Show Biz Kids" by Rickie Lee Jones - who is sure to be one of the new superstars of Yacht Rock Deep Cuts.

Fleetwood Mac is another emerging superstar band on Yacht Rock Deep Cuts. The female voice was always lacking on the standard Yacht Rock station but now you have the smooth voices of Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie (Perfect) in abundance with tracks such as "Songbird", "Little Lies" and "Storms" (from the much under-appreciated "Tusk" album).

The new station delves much deeper into classic Yacht Rock acts such as Toto, in which you will now hear on a regular basis deeper tracks like "Chinatown", "Pamela", "99" and "Child's Anthem".

You will also hear smooth songs you never knew even existed by acts like Ambrosia, Pablo Cruise, Robbie Dupree, Boz Scaggs, Atlanta Rhythm Section and Seals & Croft. Just to name a few.

The potential playlist of this new station is said to be well over 10,000 tracks. Far more extensive than the rather predictable 250-300 songs that stay in heavy rotation on the primary channel. I would expect that several hundred new tracks get into the main channel as a result of this "Deep Tracks" initiative.

[SamAdams76]

Before you delete that channel, consider that they are now playing "Sign In Stranger" by Steely Dan (off the "Royal Scam" album).

I don't think this track has gotten radio airplay in 40 years!

Also, this Yacht Rock woman would like me to come aboard, so I guess I'll be occupied for a while. She's a Steely Dan fan too, I presume.

[Viking2002]

Yacht Rock woman looks like my old elementary school teacher, but I’d give her a toss. And one song does not a good channel make, even speaking as a fellow Steely Dan fan. As an aside (WARNING: NAME DROP INBOUND), although we never formally met, Skunk Baxter and I had overlapping stints on the Pentagon MDA program back in the 90’s. It was a cool gig.

[atc23]

I’m thinking more of an afternoon in the Oregon woods picking wild mushrooms- it’s sunset and there’s a keg of Pabst Bock in the truck with Solo cups. Time to set up camp and break out the telescope.