Wishbone Ash-Pilgrimage (1971)

Wishbone Ash's second album and their first true masterpiece, "Pilgrimage" is an excellent hard rock work focused on twin guitars, with hints of the complex sounds that would be fully realized on their next album, "Argus", released a year later. With dazzling production by Martin Birch, the band showcased their clear jazz and progressive influences, as demonstrated in the opening track, "Vas Dis", a strange and unusual blend of jazzy scat singing and powerful hard rock. Meanwhile, the signature twin guitar work of Andy Powell and Ted Turner is featured in the sensational "Pilgrim" and the powerful boogie-rock track "Jail Beat", while hints of their future musical direction can be found in the subtle "Alone" and the folky pastoral "Lubally". To conclude with the melodic and complex "Valediction" and the raw blues rock "Where Were You Tomorrow", where the interplay of the twin guitars, superbly executed, is supported by one of the best rhythm sections of the 70s, composed of drummer Steve Upton and bassist Martin Turner.