2013. máj. 16. | Rounder Records
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From the album 'This World Oft Can Be'

The official video for "Empire" from the new album 'This World Oft Can Be.' Available 5/28.

'This World Oft Can Be,' Della Mae's Rounder debut, shows that like The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, and Punch Brothers, the five multitalented young women of Della Mae are respectful of American musical tradition, but not restricted by it, combining centuries' worth of musical influences with an emotionally tough, undeniably modern songwriting sensibility. In a relatively short period of time, the band has become a sensation in the music world, commanding a powerful collective chemistry with vocal, instrumental, and songwriting talent to spare. 'This World Oft Can Be,' recorded at Johnny Cash's cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee and mixed by Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, The Pixies, Uncle Tupelo), mines time-honored elements to create music that's unmistakably fresh and contemporary.


Directed & Edited by Matt Butler
Director of Photography & Camera Operator: Patrick Tohill
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Empire sits on the edge of a hill
Born out of a gypsum mine
Held at once 300 souls
And none of them were mine

Now they're just ghosts in the streets
Wandering a land that sleeps

Once it was a lively place
Now just tumbleweeds
The houses they are silent
Quiet as thieves

Now they're just ghosts in the streets
Wandering a land that sleeps

The miners callused hands
The women who planted seed on the land
Empire met its end

Once you're gone you can't go back
the locks they have all froze
The lid upon the coffin
Now it has been closed
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Now they're just ghosts in the streets
Wandering a land that sleeps


The men who built the Empire
Up from the ground
missed the cracks in the foundation
One blow and it all falls down

The miners callused hands
The women who planted seed on the land
Empire met its end

http://autovezetes.network.hu/video/zene/della_mae__empire_2014_pickathon
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Della Mae - Empire [Live at WAMU's Bluegrass Country]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XmgdFAp_6U