The Hook is what captures our attention and imagination. The Groove is that sound that just makes you feel right. 

Little River Band

  • Smooth Seas Lead Us to Yacht Rock Paradise

    If you didn’t pick up on the theme from my first Yacht Rock installment, if you want to plot a course to a treasure trove of Yacht Rock classics you need smooth seas. But while the motion of that ocean is the final, dramatic clue that reveals a Yacht Rock classic like its pulling the Read more

  • The inexplicable draw of music

    My dad would sit in the floor for hours, oversized headphones on his head, tethered to the console on the homemade shelf as he listened to one record after another. As he listened to one, he would very slowly, with great attention to detail, drag the velvet brush in a circular motion tracing the grooves Read more