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Emmylou Harris, always a sought-after collaborator, gets some help from her friends on her first solo outing since 2003. Vince Gill, Buddy Miller, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Harris' Trio cohort Dolly Parton all lend voice to this disc of originals and well-chosen covers like Tracy Chapman's "All That You Have Is Your Soul." But it is Harris—a model of grace and restraint who could school today's Nashville belters—who sets the beauty standard here.
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