Rose of Cimarron by Poco

Rose of Cimarron, Poco's ninth studio album, came out on ABC in 1976, and it arrived under a cloud: the band's old label, Epic, put out Poco Live just a month earlier, muddling fans and siphoning sales away from the new record. The sleeve shows a four-piece, Paul Cotton, George Grantham, Timothy B. Schmit and Rusty Young, but the sessions had a fifth man: Al Garth, the sax and fiddle player from Loggins & Messina, who plays on seven of the 10 tracks and was gone soon after amid internal friction.

For a country-rock outfit, it's surprisingly light on the country; AllMusic's James Chrispell heard it mostly packed away except on Young's "Company's Comin'/Slow Poke". Cotton dusts off "P.N.S. (When You Come Around)", a song from his Illinois Speed Press days. The title track, though, became one of the band's calling cards, and Emmylou Harris later cut her own version.

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