Johnny’s Island is likely to be released soon.
The album was recorded with the ‘Transband’ – who included
Nils Lofgren on guitar,
Ralph Molina on drums and
Bruce Palmer on bass – at Commercial Recorders in Honolulu prior to Young’s 1982 European tour. According to a post on Neil Young Archives, it includes a majority of unreleased songs including “Big Pearl”, “Island In The Sun” and “Love Hotel”, “plus others you may have heard before”.
Young has previously referred to
Johnny’s Island as Island In The Sun, saying that it was rejected by Geffen at the time. Three of the songs from that album – “Like An Inca”, “Hold On To Your Love” and “Little Thing Called Love” – ended up on
Neil Young Readies Lost 1982 Album Johnny s Island
The LP formerly known as Island in the Sun will soon surface
Photo: Joshua Peter Grafstein
Published Feb 01, 2021
While he s already due to deliver
On his Neil Young Archives website, the songwriter shared plans to unearth lost 1982 album
Island in the Sun, which he has now renamed
Johnny s Island.
Young wrote that the album includes a majority of unrelated tracks including Big Pearl, Island in the Sun, and Love Hotel, plus others you may have heard before.It s a beautiful record coming to you soon.
Island in the Sun was set to be Young s first release for Geffen Records. Halfway through recording, label boss David Geffen flew out to Hawaii to hear Young s latest songs, which he would later describe as a tropical thing all about sailing, ancient civilizations, islands and water.
âJohnnyâs Islandâ: Neil Young announces plans to release long-lost album he recorded in 1982 Neil Young has gone back into his archives and, this time around, he discovered an album he long thought lost. Johnny s Island , which the rocker recorded in 1982, will soon be released and be available to fans. Writing Sunday on his Neil Young Archives website , the four-time Grammy winner revealed more about the long-lost project, saying that the album was recorded at Commercial Recorders in Honolulu, Hawaii with the same musicians who worked with him on his 1982 album Trans . Johnny s Island [is] a complete album now being prepared for release at NYA, Neil touted, saying the studio effort includes a majority of unreleased tracks including Big Pearl, Island in the Sun and Love Hotel.
Neil Young announces release of âlostâ album âJohnnyâs Islandâ
The album was recorded in Hawaii in 1982
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Neil Young has announced the release of a new âlostâ album from the 1980s called âJohnnyâs Islandâ.
The record will finally be release as part of the musicianâs Archives project, which has seen him share a host of unreleased tracks and previously unheard albums.
The latest instalment of this project is âJohnnyâs Islandâ, which was recorded at the Commercial Recorders studio in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1982. The album was once called âIsland In The Sunâ and was made in collaboration with the same crew on his 12th studio album âTransâ, which was released in December 1982.