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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] and number 66 on the Australian Kent Music Report.[3]

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
Karla Bonoff (1977) Restless Nights (1979) Wild Heart of the Young (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Karla Bonoff, except where noted.

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

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

References

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