Consumer Guide Album

Charley Pride: The Best of Charley Pride Vol. III [RCA Victor, 1976]
It's no longer so easy to hit consistently in Nashville with such MOR (MOR country, I mean) material, but Pride does it, specializing in happy-marriage songs (which I often find likable) and touching such themes as Jesus, elusive dreams, childhood home, and country-singer-on-the-road (with sex). An achievement, even though he's got a gimmick as well as a voice--which seems to be softening slightly, losing its resonant edge. But especially given how middling his MOR often is, I wish he wanted to do--or is it could do?--more. B−