By the time Emmylou Harris released Cimarron in 1981, she'd established herself as one of country music's most dependable performers. Dependable is also the word that applies to this 11-song collection. Lacking the musical cohesiveness of its immediate predecessor, the bluegrass-flavored Roses in the Snow, as well as the thematic thrust of her next ambitious outing, 1985's The Ballad of Sally Rose, Cimarron feels like a bookmark in the singer's extensive catalog.
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