The HBO doc “Yacht Rock” examines the genre of soft rock that topped the charts between 1976 and 1984 from Michael McDonald and more.

The stress of Thanksgiving is over. Now it’s time to heat up leftovers, relax on the couch and enjoy the smooth sounds of a wrongly mocked music genre: yacht rock.

By Lindsay Zoladz Over the weekend, I watched an entertaining new documentary — or, as it’s billed, a “dockumentary” — about the genre of music that’s retroactively come to be known as “yacht rock.” You might be familiar with the term,

Director Garret Price talks about his new HBO documentary that shares a history of the genre, highlighting how it came to dominate the music landscape in the 70s and traces the rise, fall, and resurgence of Seventies soft rock heroes like Michael McDonald,

"Yacht Rock, A Dockumentary" is a fascinating film that explores the amazingly connected world of the soft rock genre of the 1970s and 1980s.