Laura Gibson - Empire Builder (opbmusic)

Laura Gibson plays "Empire Builder" on the Empire Builder Amtrak train through the Columbia River Gorge, accompanied by Sean Ogilvie. Subscribe to our channel to see all of opbmusic's new videos.

[@jags.3389]

This feels so like a song to pray to. 🙏🏾❤️. Much love from Nigeria. Good music will always travel.

[@tabularazor]

Cannot listen without tears, thx so much

[@jorgesierra3203]

listenng to this while im on the train from boston to new york

[@1966monkeyboy]

Love this song!! It is in my all-important "Chill" playlist.

[@jags.3389]

I mean I so so so love the song, and bless the artist for being inspired to gift us this. ❤️. Love from Nigeria. Good music will always travel.

[@cxq109]

Great video, great song. Real music lives on!

[@1966monkeyboy]

Semper Fi!

[@mycupofindie]

Splendid.

[@ZeroGrowth]

Wonderful.

[@oddryhepburn]

Stroke of genius OPB.

[@bobblebardsley]

Gosh. Knowing the story behind this song, this is a pretty astonishing video.

[@jags.3389]

Hey 👋🏾 care to share the back story?

[@bobblebardsley]

@@jags.3389 Well as far as I know, Laura Gibson wrote this song inspired by her own move from Portland to New York and riding the Empire Builder train to Chicago along the way. A few months later her apartment building was flattened by a gas explosion and she lost everything including her instruments, music and written notes for the album. She was able to rewrite what she had lost (I don't know if this was part of that or if she only wrote Empire Builder later). So the feeling of journeys and losing and finding things etc feels very personal to me and to see her perform this song on the actual Empire Builder train is just really cool for me, it's become one of my favourite songs.

[@jags.3389]

@@bobblebardsley oh that’s so touching to learn about. Every lyrics in the song resonates to me but up until the narration you just gave, I had always seen the title of this song as some mystery-cherry on the cake of it all.

[@alexgaspar9905]

she is so inspiring

[@odonaill]

Ar fheabhas ar fad! Go raibh maith agat, a Laura.