Restless Nights (Karla Bonoff album)
| Restless Nights | ||||
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| Studio album by Karla Bonoff | ||||
| Released | 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 | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| 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]
Track listing
All songs written by Karla Bonoff, except where noted.
| No. | Title | 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, 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."[3]
Personnel
- Karla Bonoff – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, background vocals
- Kenny Edwards – bass, background vocals
- Don Grolnick – piano, electric piano
- Rick Marotta – drums
- Andrew Gold – electric guitar, electric piano, percussion, background vocals
- Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar
- Russ Kunkel – drums
- Danny Kortchmar - electric guitar
- Dan Dugmore – electric guitar
- Steve Forman – percussion
- David Lindley – acoustic guitar
- Garth Hudson – accordion
- Ed Black – electric guitar
- James Taylor – acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Don Henley – background vocals
- Jackie DeShannon – background vocals
- J. D. Souther – background vocals
- Wendy Waldman – background vocals
References
- 1 2 Restless Nights (Karla Bonoff album) 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
- ↑ Shewey, Don. "Restless Nights", Rolling Stone, December 13, 1979, p. 86.
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