A classic from the Isley Brothers, the first to officially feature members Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley and Chris Jasper and released by Epic Records. This lineup immediately produced a double platinum album and would release a string of highly successful recordings throughout the ’70s. The recording sounds fantastic, the first of many fruitful collaboration between the Isley Brothers and recording engineers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, who were also working with Stevie Wonder on Innervisions around the same time.
This is a personal favorite for Ernie Isley’s amazing guitar work, describing his solo on That Lady as moving him from “a black-and-white world to Technicolor.” Covers of rock songs like Seals & Crofts’ Summer Breeze and The Doobie Brothers Listen to the Music also feature on 3 + 3, but its this album that the Isley Brothers developed their signature funk and soul sound and set a high bar they would reach many times that decade.
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