HATS OFF TO DONNIE 38 SPECIAL

“All right, guys, let’s have the truth,” your intrepid reporter says to Don Barnes and Jeff Carlisi, co-lead guitarists and chief songwriters of 38 Special, as the dishes are cleared from our table at the fashionable midtown Manhattan restaurant where ace A&M publicist Audrey Strahl has brought us for an evening of good Indian food and equally good rock ’n’ roll conversation.