38 Special-Rockin into the night

Rocking into the night

No fancy recording tricks, very little guitar effects. What you hear is the real thing, not some doctored up record although it may sound like it. These guys are some of the best!! Southern melodic pop rocker f38 Specialfs third album in 1979 features the title track that became their first smash hit. ROCKINf INTO THE NIGHT is also the first successful hit since 70s for Jim Peterik, co-founder of Survivor. It is said that this song was originally prepared for Survivorfs debut. 38 Special guys loved it and used this for their album. Some of the tracks in this album such as Stone Cold Believer and You Got The Deal are really rocking hard sounding closer to Foreigner. Yet this album also has good old southern rock vibe as seen in Money Honey. This album might have been a turning point not only for 38 Special but also for Survivor that made their music more melodic and hard as shown in Premonition. ROCKIN' INTO THE NIGHT is the second-best album by the great .38 Special. The title track is great, as is almost everything else, but by far the best song here is the keep-your-head-and-health number, "You're The Captain", which today's kids could learn a bundle from. A couple of cuts are second-rate, but this album gets 5 stars for all the rest.