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Why aren't there many women on the Yacht Rock scene - Maybe Rickie Lee Jones?

Posted on 05/01/2021 6:49:30 AM PDT by SamAdams76

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To: SamAdams76

“Yacht Rock” formats are doing to Steely Dan what “Muzak” did to Pat Metheny.

Who puts filet mignon in a sausage grinder?


41 posted on 05/01/2021 8:29:22 AM PDT by golux
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To: SamAdams76

I’ve heard Phoebe Snow and Joan Armatrading.


42 posted on 05/01/2021 8:29:31 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: SamAdams76

Right. Transportation music to get you to Margaritaville.


43 posted on 05/01/2021 8:29:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: golux

(I confess I like a fine sausage as much as filet mignon...)


44 posted on 05/01/2021 8:31:12 AM PDT by golux
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To: 9YearLurker

I’m a girl. And own a 40 ft sailboat. And there are actually quite a few women in my marina that own boats as well.


45 posted on 05/01/2021 8:38:17 AM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana

It was a joke, playing off a common phrase. Most of my boat time over the last few years has been on a female friend’s. (But very boyish of you pulling out the measurement for credibility.)


46 posted on 05/01/2021 8:41:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 1Old Pro
"It could be better if they played more than the same 40 songs."

You can submit suggestions.

47 posted on 05/01/2021 8:43:53 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: 9YearLurker

I put the measurement in simply because there is quite a difference in running a 40 ft sailboat vs. a daysailer.


48 posted on 05/01/2021 8:47:22 AM PDT by sheana
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To: SamAdams76

Yacht Rock?

Adult language warning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX1Nh6c80wo


49 posted on 05/01/2021 8:47:58 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Where words can mean anything they can also mean nothing.)
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To: nuconvert
Jazz Rock, yes. But there’s something insipid about the label Yacht Rock.

There is something "cool jazzy" or "smooth jazzy" about some of it, and there's some overlap with Kenny G. type music, but doesn't "Jazz Rock" refer more to music like Herbie Hancock's or Chick Corea's? I think of something a little livelier and funkier. I also think, probably wrongly, of Chicago and its brass section.

Yacht rock is kind of a stupid label, and it has cultural associations that would be considered problematic nowadays, but it was probably considered less insulting than "Easy Listening" or "Middle of the Road."

50 posted on 05/01/2021 9:07:11 AM PDT by x
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To: SamAdams76

We don’t listen to music much on our yacht. Sometimes when we are cruising we’ll have something in the background, but, I prefer the sounds of the boat moving, the wind in the sails, the conversations with my wife, and, no other sounds.


51 posted on 05/01/2021 9:09:14 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: SamAdams76

I LOVE RLJones. She is a true storyteller. Nicollette Larson & Neil Young made a great album together. No way they weren’t in love back in the day.


52 posted on 05/01/2021 9:16:50 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: SamAdams76
Did somebody say "yacht"?


53 posted on 05/01/2021 9:22:31 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: SamAdams76

Nicolette Larson?


54 posted on 05/01/2021 9:38:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SamAdams76

Amy Holland (Wife of Michael McDonald)


55 posted on 05/01/2021 9:40:43 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: knarf

A book written by Rickie Lee Jones telling stories about her life and music was published recently (Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour). If you like her music, and I have since listening to her as a busker on Main Street in Santa Monica in the 70’s, you’ll really enjoy her book.


56 posted on 05/01/2021 11:01:29 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Free Louie

...well she is intimidating evidently. 12 years ago had a house for sale and a Beverly Hills broker told my wife to clear out as a client wanted to tour the property. Wife worked for HP out of the inhouse office and said take a hike, she can come in and take her time, but we’re working here... Ricky comes in and then wants to take pictures but can’t get her digital camera to work. Wife volunteers to take her pix and gives her the card, Ricky bought the house and the realtor had to buy her our fridge cause she was afraid to tell Ricky that she couldn’t have it in the sale!
Thanks Ricky, sold just before the price dropped in 2008!


57 posted on 05/01/2021 11:21:38 AM PDT by PalominoGuy (a Republic, if you can keep it!)
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To: SamAdams76; Mr. Mojo; Pelham

A band that calls itself Poco......did u write this Sam....

Knows Bertie Higgins but don’t know Poco

Three gems.....very influential band

https://youtu.be/JF91ul0ZR64

https://youtu.be/xPMadlXtfE0

https://youtu.be/MPcfDlBWELM

Rocky Mountain 70s music

The later stuff is pop ballad


58 posted on 05/01/2021 11:32:19 AM PDT by wardaddy (Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio weak)
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To: wardaddy

Influential, but underrated.

3 good tunes.


59 posted on 05/01/2021 12:36:30 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mase
I heard Easy Money in the mid 70's, just winding down my OWN troubadour / bohemian lifestyle.

Her voice is STILL sweet and angelic

60 posted on 05/01/2021 1:39:42 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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