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I imagined what my great-grandmother was thinking when she emigrated to America from Bohemia in the mid-1800's.

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The old ways gone who am I now
No tribe to claim me, no moon to guide
Show me the way, the gilded dream

So free, what shall I be
Erase my name, make a new claim

A step along the endless road
The language lost, the roots recoil
History bleached from spotless soil

So free, what shall I be
Erase my name, make a new claim
So free, the gilded dream
Go tell the the tale your orphans believe

Am I faking, am I a ghost
Life on display, screen of smoke

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from The Dreamer & The Dream, released April 16, 2018

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Kela Parker Los Angeles, California

"A prepossessing voice" (A&R Factory).

No one sounds quite like Kela Parker. The Los Angeles- based, Portland, Oregon-bred singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist pushes the edges of pop forms with her singular mystic prairie rock, “like folk music, but from a country you’ve never heard of before.” (Destination: Universe!). ... more

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