Don barnes 38 special biography for kids
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Don Barnes of .38 Special Still Rockin’ Into The Night
Performing Live Makes Veteran Rocker Feel Young Again
By: Jeff Walker, Entertainment Writer
Although he left the band to pursue a short lived solo career in 1987, singer songwriter and guitarist Don Barnes has been the voice of .38 Special since they formed in 1974. Alongside legendary bands such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers, .38 Special help propel southern rock into the mainstream in the 1970’s. With fellow founding members Donnie Van Zant and Jeff Carlisi exiting the band in 2013 and 1997 respectively, Barnes remains the sole original member in .38 Special.
At 68, the Jacksonville Florida native is stoked to be fronting the band he helped form more than 47 years ago. “I told Donnie (Van Zant) many years ago, if I’m still looking at your face after 40 years I’ll be surprised. Honestly when we first started out, we were just young boys with a dream. We all had day jobs, but we hadn’t gone to college so I feel for certain none of us had backup plans.”
He adds, “Donnie and I tried seven or eight bands that amounted to nothing. When we finally got serious about making it, we knew we’d have to sacrifice. It would have to take up all our free tim
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Don Barnes
There’s Still Something Special About .38
The Don Barnes Interview
by Michael Buffalo Smith
February 2000
One of the hardest working bands of the ‘80s and ‘90s, still going strong into the new millennium, is .38 Special. With a string of Top 40 hits a mile long, the band just keeps getting better and better. Along with co-bandleader Donnie Van Zant, Don Barnes has ridden the wave from the very beginning, playing guitar and singing with one of the finest voices in classic (or Southern) rock.
GRITZ spoke with Barnes by phone from his Atlanta home about the band, his past, his future and Donnie’s brother Ronnie Van Zant.
When is the new studio album coming out?
Well, we are probably doing it in sections. Six songs this spring. Danny just got off the road with Gregg Allman and Friends. He needs some time off the road. We will go out and do six weeks of shows and then come back and finish it. But we have some great stuff, really powerful songs. We just put everything on hold and did this live album. That was pretty much the strategy to reacquaint the public with the history of the band and all the singles through the years.
Let’s jump back to the very beginning. Where did you originally come from, and where do you live