Could someone be sued for libel if they use the phrase “soft rock” to describe a musical artist? You know: one of those pejorative deals.

Not according to me! I like PLENTY of soft rock, including Seals & Crofts. Well, I don’t like ALL of their work or maybe even most of it. But they had some fine tunes that remind me of fine times and fine friends.

“Summer Breeze” is gently beautiful with its Norman Rockwellian lyrical images of the simple pleasures of coming home after a hard day’s work (and she’s laying there with not a care in the world!). And “We May Never Pass This Way (Again),” with its wistful and yearning chorus and one of those titles where only one word needs parentheses. And “Hummingbird,” which has one of the greatest bridges in world history! Seriously. And if that’s not enough, THEN they blast into an escalator-to-the-throne-of-God coda!

Jim Seals is gone now, and Dash Crofts, almost 87, has retired.

But! On Friday, The Kate in Old Saybrook welcomes Seals & Crofts 2, a duo comprised of Brady Seals (cousin to Jim Seals) and Lua Crofts (daughter of Dash Crofts). Will they touchingly replicate many of the aforementioned hits? Yes. Also, they write their own songs, and Brady composed beaucoup hits as a member of Little Texas and Hot Apple Pie.

Seals & Crofts 2, 8 p.m. Friday, Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook; $51, thekate.org, (860) 510-0453.