Restless Nights (Karla Bonoff album)

Restless Nights
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
Karla Bonoff
(1977)
Restless Nights
(1979)
Wild Heart of the Young
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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.TitleLength
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

References

  1. 1 2 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. Shewey, Don. "Restless Nights", Rolling Stone, December 13, 1979, p. 86.
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