{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Rest on Me | type = Album | artist = Kim Carnes | cover = Kim Carnes - Rest on Me.jpg | alt = | released = December 1971<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=MCA Signs Walker |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1971/Cash-Box-1971-12-04.pdf |magazine=Cash Box |page= 16 |location=United States |publisher=George Albert |date=December 4, 1971 |access-date=July 19, 2021}}</ref> | recorded = 1971 | venue = | studio = Hollywood Sound Recorders (Los Angeles, California). | genre = Pop rock | length = 33:36 | label = Amos | producer = Jimmy Bowen | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Kim Carnes | next_year = 1975 | misc = {{Singles | name = Rest on Me | type = studio | single1 = To Love | single1date = November 1971 | single2 = To Love Somebody | single2date = February 1972 }} }}
'''''Rest on Me''''' is the debut studio album by Kim Carnes. It was released in 1971 (see 1971 in music) on Amos Records and reissued on A&M Records in the late 1970s. The album (minus the opening song) was also released on CD on many European budget labels in the early 1990s - but with all tracks remixed and running at a markedly low speed. Most tracks were also lengthened, simply by repeating parts of the tracks. In 2012, the original album was re-mastered and made available, complete and at the correct speed, as an internet download in 2012 and on CD on the Essential Media Group label the following year.
==Background== Carnes began her recording career with the New Christy Minstrels. After meeting producer Jimmy Bowen in 1971, she signed a recording contract with Amos Records.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=West Coast Girl of the Week |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1972/Cash-Box-1972-01-08.pdf |magazine=Cash Box |page= 19 |location=United States |publisher=George Albert |date=January 8, 1972 |access-date=July 19, 2021}}</ref> Following the album's release, Carnes and her husband David Ellingson issued a standalone single titled "It's Love That Keeps It All Together", also produced by Bowen.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Singles Reviews – Newcomer Picks |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1972/Cash-Box-1972-03-11.pdf |magazine=Cash Box |page= 18 |location=United States |publisher=George Albert |date=March 11, 1972 |access-date=July 19, 2021}}</ref>
==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rest-on-me-mw0000241442|title=Rest on Me – Kim Carnes |website=AllMusic |access-date=June 7, 2022}}</ref> | rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734}}</ref> }} ''Cash Box'' described "To Love" as "an interesting up tempo tune in a highly commercial vein", and a "fine performance" by Carnes.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Singles Reviews – Choice Programming |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1971/Cash-Box-1971-11-06.pdf |magazine=Cash Box |page= 20 |location=United States |publisher=George Albert |date=November 6, 1971 |access-date=July 19, 2021}}</ref> The magazine described ''Rest on Me'' as a "fabulous album", noting Carnes' ability to interpret songs well.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Album Reviews – Pop Best Bits |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1971/Cash-Box-1971-12-25.pdf |magazine=Cash Box |page= 102 |location=United States |publisher=George Albert |date=December 25, 1971 |access-date=July 19, 2021}}</ref> ''Billboard'' noted the album's similarities with artists including Carole King, Carly Simon and Gayle McCormick, adding that Carnes is "distinctive in her own right".<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Album Reviews |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1971/Billboard%201971-12-11.pdf |magazine= Billboard |volume= 83 |issue= 50 |page= 62 |date= December 11, 1971 |access-date= July 19, 2021}}</ref>
==Track listing==
{{Track listing | headline = Side one | title1 = It Takes Time | writer1 = Shirley Eikhard | length1 = 2:45 | title2 = Sweet Love Song to My Soul | writer2= Daniel Moore | length2 = 2:49 | title3 = Everything Has Got to Be Free | writer3 = Bodie Chandler | length3 = 2:54 | title4 = Do You Wanna Dance? | writer4 = Bobby Freeman | length4 = 2:46 | title5 = I Won't Call You Back | writer5 = Kim Carnes | length5 = 2:58 | title6 = To Love | writer6 = {{hlist|Gerry Goffin|Carole King}} | length6 = 2:54 }}
{{Track listing | headline = Side two | total_length = 33:36 | title7 = To Love Somebody | writer7 = {{hlist|Barry Gibb|Robin Gibb}} | length7 = 3:25 | title8 = Fell in Love with a Poet | writer8 = Carnes | length8 = 3:06 | title9 = One More River to Cross | writer9 = Moore | length9 = 2:23 | title10 = You Can Do It to Me Anytime | writer10 = Baker Knight | length10 = 2:59 | title11 = Rest on Me | writer11 = Michael McGinnis | length11 = 4:37 }}
==Personnel== Adapted from the album liner notes.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Rest on Me|type=liner notes|others=Kim Carnes|year=1971|publisher=Amos Records}}</ref>
{{Div col}} * Kim Carnes – lead vocals * Larry Muhoberac – piano, organ, arrangements * Larry Carlton – guitar * Mike Deasy – guitar * James Burton – guitar * Bill Perry – bass * Reinie Press – bass * Ed Greene – drums * Dennis St. John – drums * Dave Ellingson – backing vocals * Etham Goya – backing vocals * Brooks Hunnicutt – backing vocals * Danny Jimms – backing vocals * Peter Morse – backing vocals * Mike Settle – backing vocals * Glen Hardin – piano {{small|(track 3)}} * Gil Rogers – guitar {{small|(track 3)}} {{div col end}}
===Technical=== * Jimmy Bowen – producer * John Guess – engineer
===Design=== * Bruce Hinton – art direction * Ken Kim – graphics, photography * Kim Carnes – liner notes
==Release history== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+Release formats for ''Rest on Me'' |- ! scope="col"| Region ! scope="col"| Date ! scope="col"| Format(s) ! scope="col"| Label |- | United States | rowspan="2" | December 1971 | rowspan="2" | LP | rowspan="2" | Amos |- | Canada |- | United States | rowspan="2" | 1984 | rowspan="2" | {{flatlist| * LP * cassette }} | rowspan="2" | MCA |- |Canada |- | rowspan=2" | Germany | 2011 | Digital download | rowspan="2" | Essential Media Group |- | 2013 | CD |}
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Category:1971 debut albums Category:Kim Carnes albums Category:Albums produced by Jimmy Bowen Category:Amos Records albums