Islands (The Band album)

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Islands is the seventh studio album by Canadian-American rock group the Band. It was released in March 1977 through Capitol Records, and was self-produced. The album, which was compiled primarily of previously unreleased outtakes, was released to fulfill the band's contract with Capitol so that the live concert album The Last Waltz (1978) could be released through Warner Bros. Records. As the band would soon break up later in 1977, Islands was the last album to feature the group's original lineup. Upon release, Islands received mixed reviews and was a commercial slump for the band. While the band's cover of "Georgia on My Mind" was released the previous year in tandem with the presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter, no singles were released to promote the album. The record itself stalled at number 64 on the Billboard 200, becoming the lowest-charting of all the band's albums for Capitol. Both contemporary and retrospective reviews consider the album to be inferior to the band's previous...

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