Restless (Shelby Lynne album)

Restless
Studio album by Shelby Lynne
Released	July 18, 1995
Recorded	1995
Studio	Creative Recording (Berry Hill, Tennessee) Moraine (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	31:25
Label	Magnatone/Curb
Producer	Brent Maher [1]
Shelby Lynne chronology
Temptation (1993) Restless (1995) I Am Shelby Lynne (1999)

Restless is the fifth studio album by Shelby Lynne, released on July 18, 1995 on Magnatone Records, and later re-released on Curb Records. Lynne co-wrote six of the songs on the album. The album is considered the last in a series of efforts for Lynne to attract mainstream country music audiences, this time incorporating elements of western swing. Lynne did not record another album with a Nashville-based record label until more than a decade later, when she signed with Lost Highway Records.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

Writing for AllMusic, Thom Jurek praised several tracks including "Slow Me Down", "Restless", "Reach for the Rhythm" and "Swingtown" and overall, he described the album as a "slab of swinging-for-the-charts commercial country." ^[2]

Track listing

1. "Slow Me Down" (Stephanie Davis, Shelby Lynne, Brent Maher) – 3:14
2. "Another Chance at Love" (Maher, Allen Shamblin) – 2:25
3. "Talkin' to Myself Again" (Jamie O'Hara) – 3:18
4. "Restless" (Lynne, Maher, O'Hara) – 3:05
5. "Just for the Touch of Your Hand" (Lynne, Maher, O'Hara) – 3:56
6. "Hey Now Little Darling" (Lynne, Maher, O'Hara) – 3:02
7. "I'm Not the One" (Kent Blazy, Craig Wiseman) – 3:52
8. "Reach for the Rhythm" (Lynne, Maher, O'Hara) – 2:20
9. "Wish I Knew" (Rod McGaha) – 3:44
10. "Swingtown" (Lynne, Maher, O'Hara) – 2:34

Personnel

• Pat Bergeson - harmonica (tracks 5 and 6), electric guitar (tracks 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10), acoustic guitar (tracks 1 and 9)
• J. D. Blair - drums (track 10)
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar (track 9)
• Randy Howard - fiddle (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10)
• John Hughey - steel guitar (track 3 and 7)
• Roy Huskey Jr. - bass (tracks 2, 4, and 10)
• Paul Leim - percussion (track 1), drums (tracks 1–9)
• Brent Mason - electric guitar (tracks 2 and 4)
• Weldon Myrick - steel guitar (tracks 2, 4, 6, and 8)
• The Nashville String Machine - strings
• Bobby Ogdin - piano
• Don Potter - acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10)
• Michael Rhodes - bass (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8, and 9)
• Glenn Worf - bass (tracks 3 and 7)
• Mike Zikovich - accordion

Chart performance

Chart (1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	72

References

1. "Restless > Credits", Allmusic , Rovi Corporation , retrieved July 8, 2010
2. Jurek, Thom, "Restless > Review", Allmusic , Rovi Corporation , retrieved July 8, 2010