Andy Fogarty: "Ride On was the album that convinced me that Christy was more than just a balladeer with a grandfather beard and smelly t-shirt. There’s a breath-taking bunch of tunes that includes the classic ‘Lisdoonvarna’, and which covers topics as varied as US foreign policy (‘El Salvador’), emigration (‘City Of Chicago’), landscape (‘Among The Wicklow Hills’), the Spanish Civil War, hope and Northern Ireland, and it even put WB Yeats at the top of the album charts."