Wild-Eyed Southern Boys is the Platinum selling fourth studio album by the southern rock band 38 Special, released in 1981. The album reached number 18 in the Pop Albums chart.
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".
"Hold On Loosely" is a playable track in the PlayStation 2 video game Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s as a cover version and a downloadable track, featuring the master recording, for the Rock Band series. It was also used in the movies Joe Dirt, Without a Paddle and Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas. .