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Wild Eyed Southern Boys

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Released
  
February 1981

Wild-Eyed Southern Boys (1981)
  
Special Forces (1982)

Release date
  
1980

Producer
  
Rodney Mills

Length
  
39:30

Artist
  
38 Special

Label
  
A&M Records

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Recorded
  
September 1979–July 1980 at Studio One, Doraville, GA

Genres
  
Rock music, Southern rock, Hard rock, Album-oriented rock

Similar
  
38 Special albums, Southern rock albums

38 special wild eyed southern boys


Wild-Eyed Southern Boys is the fourth studio album by the southern rock band 38 Special, released in 1981.

Contents

Three of the four songs written or co-written by Survivor's Jim Peterik for the album charted as singles: the title track, "Fantasy Girl" and "Hold On Loosely".

Track listing

  1. "Hold On Loosely" (Don Barnes, Jeff Carlisi, Jim Peterik) – 4:39
  2. "First Time Around" (Barnes, Carlisi, Steele, Donnie Van Zant) – 3:59
  3. "Wild-Eyed Southern Boys" (Peterik) – 4:18
  4. "Back Alley Sally" (Carlisi, Van Zant) – 3:11
  5. "Fantasy Girl" (Carlisi, Peterik) – 4:06
  6. "Hittin' and Runnin'" (Barnes, Peterik) – 4:55
  7. "Honky Tonk Dancer" (Barnes, Steele, Van Zant) – 4:59
  8. "Throw Out the Line" (Barnes, Carlisi, Van Zant) – 3:45
  9. "Bring It On" (Carlisi, Steele, Van Zant) – 5:38

"Hold On Loosely" is a playable track in the PlayStation 2 video game Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and a downloadable track for the Rock Band series. It was also used in the movies Joe Dirt, Without a Paddle and Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas.

Personnel

  • Don Barnes – guitar, piano, vocals, background vocals
  • Steve Brookins – drums
  • Jeff Carlisi – guitar, steel guitar
  • Jack Grondin – drums
  • Larry Junstrom – bass guitar
  • Donnie Van Zant – vocals
  • Carol Bristow – vocals
  • Lu Moss – vocals
    • Guests
  • Carol Veto – background vocals
  • Steve McRay – piano
  • Terry Emery – percussion

    • Production

  • Producer: Rodney Mills
  • Engineers: Rodney Mills, Greg Quesnel
  • Cover art painting: Larry Gerber

    • Charts

    Album – Billboard (North America)

    Singles – Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1Hold on Loosely4:39
    2First Time Around3:59
    3Wild Eyed Southern Boys4:18

    References

    Wild-Eyed Southern Boys Wikipedia
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