Southern Comfort (Conway Twitty album)

This article is about the Conway Twitty album. For the fruit-spice alcoholic beverage, see Southern Comfort. For the conference on transgender issues, see Southern Comfort Conference. For other uses, see Southern Comfort (disambiguation).

Southern Comfort
Studio album by Conway Twitty
Released	February 1982[1]
Recorded	1981
Genre	Country
Length	32:04
Label	Elektra Records
Producer	Conway Twitty, Jimmy Bowen
Conway Twitty chronology
Number Ones (1981) Southern Comfort (1982) Conway's #1 Classics, Volume One (1982)
Singles from Southern Comfort
"The Clown" Released: December 1981 "Slow Hand" Released: April 24, 1982

Southern Comfort is the forty-fourth studio album by American country music singer Conway Twitty. The album was released in February 1982,^[2] by Elektra Records.^[3] Twitty had signed with the label after a long tenure with MCA Records and one of its predecessors, Decca Records; the change in allegiance was owed to a change in management in MCA which also shifted its focus to marketing and promoting newer artists.

This album spawned two #1 country hits. One was in an original song called "The Clown" and the other was in a rendition of the Pointer Sisters' 1981 hit "Slow Hand", which he reworked to suit his personality. The latter single, his 29th #1 country hit, was his final multi-week #1 hit on Billboard's country single charts.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Slow Hand"	John Bettis, Michael Clark[5]	2:55
2.	"The Clown"	Brenda Barnett, Charlie Chalmers, Sandra Chalmers, Wayne Carson[6]	4:00
3.	"The Boy Next Door"	Eddie Setser, Troy Seals[7]	2:35
4.	"Love and Only Love"	Hugh Moffatt[8]	2:54
5.	"When Love Was Something Else"	Roger Murrah, Scott Anders[9]	2:37
6.	"She Only Meant to Use Him"	Charles Quillen, Dallas Cody[10]	3:55
7.	"It Turns Me Inside Out"	Jan Crutchfield[11]	3:23
8.	"Southern Comfort"	Jamie O'Hara[12]	2:36
9.	"Something Strange Got Into Her Last Night"	Bobby Harden[13]	3:42
10.	"I Was the First"	Terry Skinner[14]	3:14

Personnel

• Acoustic Guitar – Kenny Bell
• Acoustic Guitar, Lead Guitar – Brent Rowan
• Arranged By (strings) – Bergen White
• Art Direction – Norm Ung
• Backing Vocals – Dennis W. Wilson, Don Gant, Doug Clements, Duane West, James E. "Buzz" Cason, Lea Jane Berinati, Vicki Hampton, Yvonne Hodges
• Banjo – Jack Hicks
• Bass – Bob Wray
• Design – Kosh
• Drums, Percussion – James Stroud, Jerry Carrigan
• Engineer – Ron Treat
• Keyboards – Randy McCormick
• Lead Guitar – Reggie Young
• Lead Vocals – Conway Twitty
• Mastered By – Glenn Meadows
• Photography By – Jim Shea
• Producer – Conway Twitty
• Producer, Recorded By – Jimmy Bowen
• Steel Guitar, Dobro – John Hughey
• Strings – Sheldon Kurland Strings^[15]

Charts

Chart (1982)	Peak position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[16]	5

References

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