Following
Harris'
departure from Warner Bros., the label saw fit to compile
Songs of the West
, a collection of previously-released performances linked thematically by their connection, however tenuous, to Western music, life and mythology. Stripped of their original album context, the individual tracks fail to happily co-exist; the record's lone selling point is that a pair of cuts -- one culled from her autobiographical song cycle
The Ballad of Sally Rose
, the other a cover of
Poco's
"Rose of Cimarron"
-- make their domestic CD bow herein. ~ Jason Ankeny