HBO has unveiled the brand new trailer for an upcoming documentary — or slightly, dockumentary — in regards to the emergence, recognition, and affect of the yacht rock sub-genre. Formally titled Music Field: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, the movie will sail residence on November twenty ninth. Watch the trailer under.
Directed by Garrett Worth, who just lately labored on the Emmy-nominated Daisy Jones & The Six, Music Field: Yacht Rock explores how the area of interest of sentimental rock earned its retroactive label and speaks with most of the artists who grappled with its rise and legacy. The footage within the trailer teases interviews with Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Thundercat, Questlove of The Roots, Mac DeMarco, and extra.
“The singers all appear to be saying, ‘Hey, it’s going to be okay,’” comic and musician Fred Armisen remarks within the trailer.
After efficiently melding components from jazz, funk, and R&B to the tune of thousands and thousands of information bought, yacht rock took a success within the mid-Nineteen Eighties with the emergence of MTV and a cultural shift towards slicker pop manufacturing. Yacht Rock is the most recent entry in HBO’s Music Field collection, which has beforehand explored cultural touchstones like Woodstock ’99, DMX, and Kenny G.
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Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary may also stream on Max. Get began with HBO’s streaming platform right here.