Consumer Guide Album

The Bellamy Brothers: Greatest Hits Volume Two [Curb, 1986]
Whatever its pretensions, all country music offers the same primary reward: tuneful variations on the verities of the ordinary. These harmonizing eclectics sometimes outdo themselves. The rueful, nostalgic "Old Hippie" is Nashville's own "Born in the U.S.A."--"He ain't tryin' to change nobody/He's just tryin' to adjust"--and "Lie to You for Your Love" is a generic paradox that puts their strong weakness for ass-man smarm in perspective. Climax: "I Love Her Mind"--because her mind controls her body, naturally. B+