Recorded in front of a live studio audience at The Space in Red Deer, AB in partnership with Melodious Design.  Ice Road is a song about journeying through grief and is from Honeycomb Tombs.

Ice Road (Live)

Written about a prostitute named after a chocolate Lab, one of J + L most requested tunes.

Ruby - Jacob and Lily

Written by Karla Adolphe and Aaron Strumpel for The Emporiums project.  A great song for a dramatic series/film/commercial.


Pennies and Paper - The Emporiums

Karla joins Enter the Worship Circle to record the 3r installment of Chair and Mic series,  all songs recorded in a single pass, no edits!

This song was also featured on the CW's Hart of Dixie Pilot episode in Sept 2011.

You Are Mine - CM3

Graceland has no room left for me
No vacancy I can feel it
Pictures and memories are stolen or put away
I can feel it

This is a lonely crowd of people I am in
This is another bad day slowly setting in

Graveyards have no room left for me
Frozen and six feet deep  I can feel it
No I will never be the same
You refuse to be erased
I can feel it

You refuse to be erased


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Graceland & Graveyards

Winter is glass museum grade keeping me away from you
All I ask here in this place please stay a minute or two
With courage and fear here we can say all that we wanted to

Who can hold me
Who can wrap their arms around me and keep me from falling in

Come first frost all pale blue covering you in porcelain
Rattle and clap shutter and snap when breath became wind
This freezing rain, this stinging pain its what is getting me through

Every corner a memory every memory a wish
Every time I wake up I imagine this
When all color has left me left me staggering and blind
Is this what you were dreaming is this what you would find
A house without a heartbeat a heart without a prayer
A story to believe in a cry that you might hear
A tight separation a separate imagination
A clock counting seconds without time passing by


Who Can Hold Me

I watched my flowers wilt and wind away
Inside there is a heart tattered and frayed
Summer won't come back, winter just might stay
I wander grey and silver

Two cups of coffee wasted now cold
A glowing ember from flames once so bold
Believing won't come back
To a heart that is so old
I wander grey and silver

Stay away grave come back love

My hands to harvest under the setting sun
The final work collecting has begun
Color won't come back when my eyes begin to fade
I wander grey and silver



Grey & Silver

I breathe in I breathe out
I am seen I am found
I am known I am heard
You are my mamma wing I am your baby bird

When days are long nights are cold
Fear is a friend and hope is old
If I lay down beneath the earth
You are my mamma wing I am your baby bird

Again we will fly soon we will sing
And on that day I will tell you everything
My heart wrote it down I know every word
You are my mamma wing I am your baby bird



Mamma Wing

Sun sets down over the river where I lost you right where you were found
Into this holy water were you swimming tell me where you drowned
Is there room for me
Swing low sweet chariot is there room for me

Daddy never had it in him to stay longer than it suited
Mamma she always held me here said don't cry child Jesus he is near
Is there room for me
Swing low sweet chariot is there room for me

I hear you whisper softly to me don't buy in no there is nothing here
To build your house upon when all those waters they come flooding near
Is there room for me
Swing low sweet chariot is there room for me

Swing low sweet chariot coming forth to carry me home


Room For Me

When the death of a dream surrenders to the hope of a seed then both a garden and a song can be born. Goodness is this song, poignant and relevant for the days we find ourselves in.

Learn more: www.karlaadolphe.ca

Goodness

With a voice that leaves you breathless and songs that spark and ignite in your soul Karla Adolphe is a deep thinking and tangibly emotive artist. She deftly combines her powerful voice, lyrical words, and curated storytelling into a transcendent experience for her devoted audiences.

Over the past 13 years, Karla Adolphe has created a diverse career for herself touring North America in a 40ft RV performing as a solo artist, in the roots duo Jacob and Lily, and in the Colorado duo The Emporiums and with Colorado gospel outfit Enter The Worship Circle. Karla's 2012 release Honeycomb Tombs, is a stand-alone album inspired by and devoted to the subject of grief. With over 30,000 downloads this album has been a balm to listeners worldwide.

In 2013, Karla and her family lost there home in the great Southern Alberta Floods, needless to say, there have been many years of personal growth, healing and dormancy leading to 3 new songs being released in 2020. The new work dives deep into topics of suffering, overcoming, and resilience as Karla explores what it is to find one’s true voice.

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