Consumer Guide Album

Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Best of B.T.O. (So Far) [Mercury, 1976]
So far my foot--from "Roll On Down the Highway" to "Takin' Care of Business," two titles that encompass their vision quite aptly, this is as close as they'll ever come to a premium-quality album. In the end, though, I prefer their first, when the inspiration was fresh. And I do mean inspiration--in 1972, a rock and roll that spoke up loud and straight for the self-reliant but spiritually unambitious ordinary guy could only have been conceived by a clod like Bachman himself. B+