To All The Wild Horses - Cherokee Rose

Where "Buckskin" acted as her first demo tape, by the time she went to record To All The Wild Horses a few years later, Rose was fully immersed in a music career - With some support and plays from reservation radio, and consistent touring of coffee shops, art spaces, native cultural events and niche music festivals. However mainstream success still eluded Cherokee Rose. Culturally, there seemed to be an imtrable barrier from the place Rose was operating, and what at the time in the 90s was considered to be popular by the mainstream. As formats for how music is released and consumed changed over the decades, much of Rose's earliest recorded output was relegated to obscurity simply for the fact that it seemed to exist in a vacuum. Hearing the music that made up Buckskin and To All The Wild Horses today, Rose herself was transported back to the time and place in which the songs were written and recorded. The catharsis of discovering her cultural and racial identity coincided directly with the desire to express those experiences through songs.