‘I wrote 'Black Irish Indian’ in 1980, and released it in 1993, but maybe the song's time and place is actually 2021,' Rose Moore intimates. Such staggering self-awareness and personal reflection should come as no surprise from an artist who has spent decades considering her personal identity, her place within her own various ancestral histories and how she is informed by these three seemingly-disparate backgrounds which unite within her own expression.

Performing under the name Cherokee Rose in the 1980s and '90s, Rose's debut release “Buckskin” – existed in a sort of suspended-animation: issued as a small run cassette-only demo tape and sold at shows direct to a smattering of fans in 1993. No record label, no distribution. The catharsis of discovering her cultural and racial identity coincided directly with the desire to express those experiences through songs.

Thanks to a personal connection to session engineer at prince's storied Paisley park, Rose booked piecemeal studio time at off hours, middle of the night and early morning sessions to get her songs committed to tape.