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In the summer of 1997, they issued a comeback effort titled Resolution on Razor & Tie Records. Even with the extensive retooling and the support of a new label, Charisma, 1991's Bone Against Steel failed to gain much attention.38 Special didn't release another album for six years. Barnes returned to the band in 1991 and the group added drummer Scott Hoffman and keyboardist Bobby Capps. Rock & Roll Strategy became the band's final big hit. 38 Special is comprised of founder Don Barnes (guitar/vocals), Bobby Capps (key/vocals), Garry Moffatt (drums), Barry Dunaway (bass), and Jerry Riggs (guitar).38 Special came out of the starting gate full. Released in 1989, the album slowly became a hit on the strength of "Second Chance," an adult contemporary-oriented ballad that reached the Top Ten. 38 Special are on a mini-tour of Florida, playing in Clearwater and tomorrow night in their hometown Jacksonville. Flashback, the 1987 greatest-hits album, was moderately successful, but the band took precautions to retain its audience by recording the polished Rock & Roll Strategy.

While Strength in Numbers had been popular, it didn't stay on the charts as long as its predecessors. Barnes and Brookins left in 1987 Barnes was replaced by Danny Chauncey.

The album became a moderate hit, but 1981's Wild-Eyed Southern Boys was a genuine hit, going platinum and generating the Top 40 "Hold On Loosely." Special Forces, released in 1982, was even more popular, spawning the Top Ten single "Caught Up in You." Tour de Force (1983) and Strength in Numbers (1986) were both successes, and the band continued to be a popular touring outfit. Bassist Lyons left before the recording of 1979's Rockin' into the Night, the album that demonstrated a more melodic, driving sound he was replaced by Larry Junstrom. Neither 38 Special nor its follow-up, Special Delivery, received much attention, but the group began to build up a following through their constant touring. Three years later, the band signed with A&M Records and released their eponymous debut. 38 Special in 1974 with Jeff Carlisi (guitar), Don Barnes (guitar, vocals), Ken Lyons (bass), Jack Grondin (drums), and Steve Brookins (drums). Though the band had their biggest hit in 1989 with the ballad "Second Chance," it proved to be their last gasp - they faded away in the early '90s, retiring to the oldies circuit.ĭonnie Van Zant (vocals) formed the Jacksonville, Florida-based. 38 Special's popularity dipped in the late '80s as MTV-sponsored pop and heavy metal cut into their audience. The result was a string of hit albums and singles in the early '80s, highlighted by "Caught Up in You," "If I'd Been the One," "Back Where You Belong," and "Like No Other Night.". After releasing a couple of albums of straight-ahead Southern boogie, the band revamped their sound to fall halfway between country-fried blues-rock and driving, arena-ready hard rock. 38 Special were one of many Southern rock bands in the vein of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd in fact, the group was led by Donnie Van Zant, the brother of Skynyrd's leader, Ronnie Van Zant. Here are all of 38 Special albums ranked.Initially. This paved the way for their platinum supercharged fourth record, Wild-Eyed Southern Boys (January 1981), and its bigger hit “Hold On Loosely” (which reached #27 in 1981). Sung by 38’s guitarist Don Barnes (who would sing lead vocals on all of the band’s hits through 1987), the tune became their first song to receive national airplay, peaking at #43 on Billboard Hot 100 in early 1980. “Rockin’ into the Night”, the title track from the group’s third album (released in October 1979), which Peterik and his bandmates had originally written for Survivor, was instead given to 38 Special. Engineer Rodney Mills, who had worked with Atlanta Rhythm Section and others, assumed the producer’s reins from here on and Survivor co-founder Jim Peterik became a frequent songwriting collaborator of the band’s from 1979 on, which helped account for this change in sound and subsequent success. By the early 1980s, 38 Special had shifted to a more accessible guitar-driven arena rock style without completely abandoning its Southern rock roots. This shift helped to usher in a string of successful albums and singles. The band’s first two albums had a strong Southern rock influence. 38 Special) is an American rock band that was formed by neighborhood friends Don Barnes and Donnie Van Zant in 1974 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.