JIgsaw (1972) Ready to Ride - LOST 70s GEMS

With it's awesome colourful front cover of blue and red pixies pairing off into the sunset, the album bears Ready to Ride a blueprint for their future successes with it's stirring strings sweeping along with wah-wah guitar pick attacks and Des' superb soaring high tenor vocals and a very 70s mellow bridge with its ghostly reverbed disco strings. The throbbing bass moog synthesizer reveals how they were already on the cutting edge of the 70s disco and soul scene focusing on mixing the rhythmic and the lush.  Come With Me starts with a short echoed, sweet string part before a pause and a double bass drum strike into a easy listening soul ballad; it's sweet dreariness and lyrics about come and walk with me must have inspired the designs on the front and back of the album with little man and woman characters walking off into the distance with their backs to us like exiles from the side of some Disney fairground ride.