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The yacht rock genre has seen a recent boom in popularity, but what exactly is yacht rock? Tommy Buoy, the singer of the popular band, Yachtley Crew<\/a>, sat down with WOKV\u2019s Chase Bunker ahead of that band\u2019s Florida shows in February, to talk about the constitutes as yacht rock, what caused the recent boom, and more.<\/p>\n \u201cYacht rock is soft rock from the \u201870s and \u201880s. All the songs that you would know, like Steely Dan, Toto, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins. It just kind of got a rebrand in the 2000s by a YouTube comedy series…rebranded to yacht rock, just kind of making light of it. Not really poking fun at it but making light of it, and so that kind of caught on with America,\u201d says Buoy.<\/p>\n On what caused the rise of the genre, Buoy says, \u201cit\u2019s a number of different things, honestly. It\u2019s [YouTube], I would also attribute it to the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, which had a lot of yacht rock hits in them, and really focused on that to bring it to a younger generation, and reminded people how great these songs are. I also think that there\u2019s a part of it that\u2019s like…it\u2019s just really good music from that time, that maybe people aren\u2019t getting that fill with current music. Not to trash current music or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n You can see Yachtley Crew<\/a> at the Orange Blossom Opry in Weirsdale on February 15<\/a>. You can hear more on yacht rock, performing, and how many nautical jackets Tommy has to bring on tour in the full interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can find more of Chase\u2019s interviews in the Chase Chats section<\/a> of WOKV.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Read more local news from WOKV<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The yacht rock genre has seen a recent boom in popularity, but what exactly is yacht rock? Tommy Buoy, the singer of the popular band, Yachtley Crew, sat down with WOKV\u2019s Chase Bunker ahead of that band\u2019s Florida shows in February, to talk about the constitutes as yacht rock, what caused the recent boom, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2068940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[387242,345380,368933,374823,387241,378255],"class_list":["post-2068939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-buoy","tag-kenny-loggins","tag-michael-mcdonald","tag-steely-dan","tag-yacht-rock","tag-yachtley-crew"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/What-is-Yacht-Rock-Yachtley-Crew-singer-Tommy-Buoy-talks.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068941,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068939\/revisions\/2068941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}