Restless Nights (Karla Bonoff album)

Restless Nights
Restless Nights
Studio album by Karla Bonoff
Released	September 1979
Recorded	The Sound Factory, Los Angeles
Genre	Folk rock, pop rock,; easy listening, adult contemporary
Length	37:19
Label	Columbia
Producer	Kenny Edwards
Karla Bonoff chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Restless Nights is the second album by singer/songwriter Karla Bonoff. The album peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard albums chart^[2] and number 66 on the Australian Kent Music Report.^[3]

Track listing[]

All songs written by Karla Bonoff, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Trouble Again"	Bonoff, Kenny Edwards	3:37
2.	"Restless Nights"		5:18
3.	"The Letter"		2:47
4.	"When You Walk in the Room"	Jackie DeShannon	3:00
5.	"Only a Fool"		6:07
6.	"Baby Don't Go"	Bonoff, Kenny Edwards	3:19
7.	"Never Stop Her Heart"		4:49
8.	"Loving You"		3:26
9.	"The Water Is Wide"	Traditional	4:56

Reception[]

AllMusic's William Ruhlmann retrospectively called the first track, "Trouble Again", "a gem (as Linda Ronstadt proved when she recorded it)" but concluded that the album "did not represent the leap that would have been required to vault Bonoff into the ranks of her star friends."^[1]

Rolling Stone's Don Shewey dismissed Bonoff's work as "sappy, MOR schlock." Though "Trouble Again" and "Baby Don't Go" are "fast, fun and disposable — i.e., everything a pop single should be. The remainder of Restless Nights is insufferable sludge."^[4]

Personnel[]

Ed Black – electric guitar
Karla Bonoff – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, background vocals
Jackie DeShannon – background vocals
Dan Dugmore – electric guitar
Kenny Edwards – bass guitar, background vocals
Steve Forman – percussion
Andrew Gold – electric guitar, electric piano, percussion, background vocals
Don Grolnick – piano, electric piano
Don Henley – background vocals
Garth Hudson – accordion
Danny Kortchmar - electric guitar
Russ Kunkel – drums
David Lindley – acoustic guitar
Rick Marotta – drums
J. D. Souther – background vocals
James Taylor – acoustic guitar, background vocals
Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar
Wendy Waldman – background vocals

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Restless Nights at AllMusic
^ Whitburn, Joel (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums, 3rd Edition, p. 41. Billboard Books, New York. ISBN 0-8230-7631-8
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 42. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
^ Shewey, Don. "Restless Nights", Rolling Stone, December 13, 1979, p. 86.

[allmusic-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Restless Nights at AllMusic

[2] Whitburn, Joel (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums, 3rd Edition, p. 41. Billboard Books, New York. ISBN 0-8230-7631-8

[aus-3] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 42. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

[4] Shewey, Don. "Restless Nights", Rolling Stone, December 13, 1979, p. 86.

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