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Islands is the seventh studio album by the Canadian-American rock group the Band. Released in 1977 to mixed reviews, it is the final studio album from the group's original lineup.[5]

Islands
Studio album by the Band
Released	March 15, 1977 (1977-03-15)
Recorded	December 1972 – January 1977
Studio	Shangri-la Studios; Village Recorders, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Rock
Length	35:15
Label	Capitol
Producer	The Band
The Band chronology
The Best of the Band (1976) Islands (1977) Anthology (1978)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	C+[2]
MusicHound	woof![3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]
Q	[5]

Primarily composed of previously unreleased songs from the Band's career (including their 1976 cover of "Georgia on My Mind", which was recorded to aid Jimmy Carter in his presidential bid),[6] Islands was released to fulfill the group's contract with Capitol Records, so that the soundtrack to their film The Last Waltz could be released on Warner Bros. Records.[5] In the CD liner notes, Robbie Robertson compares the album to the Who's Odds & Sods.

John Bauldie in Q magazine called the album "a ragbag of old outtakes and otherwise unplaceable new numbers".[5]

Track listing

Side one

Side two

• Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–10 on CD reissues.

Bonus tracks from 2001 CD re-release

Personnel

The Band

• Rick Danko – bass guitar, vocals
• Levon Helm – drums, vocals
• Garth Hudson – organ, synthesizers, saxophones, accordion, piccolo on "Islands"
• Richard Manuel – piano, electric piano, vocals
• Robbie Robertson – guitars, lead vocal on "Knockin' Lost John"

Additional musicians

• Jim Gordon – flute on "Islands"
• Tom Malone – trombone on "Islands"
• John Simon – alto saxophone on "Islands"
• Larry Packer – violin on "Islands"

Production

• Ed Anderson – engineering
• Neil Brody – engineering
• Rob Fraboni – engineering
• Nat Jeffrey – engineering

References

На других языках

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[de] Islands (The-Band-Album)

Islands ist das siebte Studioalbum der kanadischen Folk- und Country-Rock-Gruppe The Band. Es erschien am 15. März 1977 auf dem Label Capitol Records. Islands war das letzte Studioalbum, das die Band in ihrer ursprünglichen Besetzung einspielte. Tatsächlich hatte die Gruppe bereits am Thanksgiving 1976 ihr legendäres Abschiedskonzert The Last Waltz gegeben, das nun auf Warner Bros. Records veröffentlicht werden sollte, und nahm das Album nur auf, um ihren auf insgesamt zehn Alben hinauslaufenden Vertrag mit Capitol zu erfüllen. Nach der Veröffentlichung von Islands löste sich die Band auf.

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- [en] Islands (The Band album)

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[es] Islands (álbum de The Band)

Islands es el octavo álbum de estudio de la banda norteamericana de rock The Band. Publicado por Capitol Records en marzo de 1977, supone el último trabajo de estudio de la formación clásica del grupo, integrada por Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel y Garth Hudson. Seis años más tarde, los integrantes del grupo a excepción de Robertson reformaron The Band y volvieron a salir con frecuencia de gira en la década de 1990 y a grabar nuevos trabajos como Jericho (1993), High on the Hog (1996) y Jubilation (1998), hasta la muerte de Danko en 1999 y la disolución definitiva del grupo.

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[it] Islands (The Band)

Islands è il settimo album in studio del gruppo musicale canadese-statunitense The Band, pubblicato nel 1977.

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