![]() We were ready, and we just sorta-like hit it. “When we got into that studio in Vegas, Santana’s band was ready. “Ronald and Carlos discussed the tunes they wanted to do before we got in the studio,” Ernie Isley said. Joining in on the spiritually uplifting record is the O’Jays’ Eddie Levert (father of the late, great singer Gerald Levert) and there's a backing chorus of Kandy and Tracy Isley. That feeling of real family is magnified when you consider that the Isley Brothers’ newest album, 2017’s “Power of Peace,“ was recorded with hardly any rehearsals at all and in collaboration with legendary guitarist Carlos Santana and his wife, drummer Cindy Blackman Santana. ![]() The other brothers would say the same thing.” He’s an alternate version of me and I’m another version of him. ![]() I saw his face within minutes of being born, you know. “He’s my brother, first and foremost – someone I have known through happy and sad, thick and thin. “We have each other’s back always, whether it’s on stage or on the home front,” Ernie Isley said. Then there’s the fact that guitar-playing baby brother Ernie and elder singing sibling Ronald (the latter, one of the Isley Brothers’ original trio) are tight. RELATED READS: Max Weinberg: 'never know when Bruce will call' | 'Little Steven' Van Zandt: just 'a working-class celebrity' | Judah & the Lion roars from Christian to pop rock success Check them out at The Borgata in Atlantic City this weekend, and you’ll see and hear how righteously funky they can be. Kelly-produced tracks like “Lay with You”), the Isleys are on. “It’s Your Thing”) their stomping, satin-laced '70s sound (“Harvest for the World”) or the salty, smooth R&B of the '90s and 2000s (R. Whether it’s early hits like 1959’s “Shout ” their end-of-the-'60s brand of psychedelic shack soul (e.g. There are two things that always occur when Ernie and Ronald Isley – the world-famous, soul-spinning Isley Brothers – get into a room together, be it a recording studio, a live concert venue or a dining space.įirst, the whole shebang is going to be funky, period. ![]()
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