The Grammy Award winning singer perhaps best known for “Jesse’s Girl” said he really likes outdoor concerts.

“It’s a freer environment,” he said in a recent phone interview with The Messenger.

“Everyone has a better attitude out there under the stars,” he added.

Springfield will be performing under the stars Friday night in For Dodge as the headliner for Shellabration.

He promised a show that will help people forget, for a couple hours, anyway, things like taxes, mortgages and crazy stuff going on across the globe.

“I just look forward to playing and celebrating with the audience,” Springfield said. “I just look forward to the great party.”

“We’ll have a great time,” he added.

He will be singing on a stage set up at Central Avenue and Ninth Street in the heart of downtown. It will not be the first time he’s performed basically on a street in the middle of a city.

“I’ve done a few of those,” he said. “I love it.”

Springfield said he is aware that probably 70 percent of Friday night’s audience will be there to hear his hit songs. In addition to “Jesse’s Girl,” his string of hits includes “I’ve Done Everything For You,” “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” “Affair of the Heart,” and “Love Somebody.”

Throughout the 1980s, he had 17 Top 40 hits.

But he said he’s leaving room in his playlist for new material also. He said he has a new single coming out called “I Could Lose Myself” which he will perform Friday.

Springfield’s Fort Dodge concert is part of one of the short tours he has been taking in recent years. He no longer goes on long tours that keep him on the road for weeks and months at a time. Instead, he does tours that include three to five concerts and then returns home to Malibu, California.

“Three, four or five shows and then home keeps it fresh,” he said.

When he is not touring, he has plenty to keep him busy. He and rocker Sammy Hagar, who wrote “I’ve Done Everything For You,” are partners in a rum producing company called Beach Bar Rum.

He also has a radio show called “Working Class DJ.” Springfield said being a disc jockey was the first job he wanted. However, he said “Working Class DJ” is more about just having fun for him.

“I don’t take it seriously at all,” he said.

“I have people come up to me and say ‘I listen to your show’ and I kind of go ‘Really?'” he said.

Springfield has been an actor as well, with Dr. Noah Drake on “General Hospital” being his best known role. He hasn’t done much acting recently, something he attributes in part to the pandemic, which he said is still slowing down Hollywood.

“I’m still very up for parts,” he said.

Singing and acting, he said, are very similar.

“Both really operate from the same place in the soul,” he said.