Restless Nights (Karla Bonoff album)
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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
- 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Shewey, Don. "Restless Nights", Rolling Stone, December 13, 1979, p. 86.