Restless Nights (Karla Bonoff album)

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]

Restless Nights
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1979
RecordedThe Sound Factory, Los Angeles
GenreFolk rock, pop rock,
easy listening, adult contemporary
Length37:19
LabelColumbia
ProducerKenny Edwards
Karla Bonoff chronology
Karla Bonoff
(1977)
Restless Nights
(1979)
Wild Heart of the Young
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Karla Bonoff, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Trouble Again"Bonoff, Kenny Edwards3:37
2."Restless Nights" 5:18
3."The Letter" 2:47
4."When You Walk in the Room"Jackie DeShannon3:00
5."Only a Fool" 6:07
6."Baby Don't Go"Bonoff, Kenny Edwards3:19
7."Never Stop Her Heart" 4:49
8."Loving You" 3:26
9."The Water Is Wide"Traditional4:56

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

References

  1. 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
  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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