Description
Track Listing:
- Wide Awake 5:58
- Shooting Rockets 3:22
- Class of 2000 5:45
- Perfect Kiss 4:40
- Latch Key Kid 5:16
- I Won’t Step Down 4:52
- Fade 5:01
- Don’t Fall Away 7:05
- Baby Look Up 4:28
- A Song for Cara 5:16
- Watch From the Trees 4:24
- Clumsy 5:30
- You 5:00
- Sunday Drive 4:48
- The Great Impossible 4:23
All songs written by Diane Ward. © 2003 All rights reserved.
Produced: by Jack Shawde & Diane Ward
Mixed by: W. Damian Mazur, Jack Shawde & Diane Ward at Soundmixers Recording Studios, Hollywood, FL
Mastered by: Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, NYC
Engineered by: Keith Rose at Elysian Fields Studios, Boca Raton, FL and W. Damian Mazur at Soundmixers Recording Studios, Hollywood, FL
Musicians:
Diane Ward – Lead & Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Programming
Jack Shawde – Electric Rhythm & Lead Guitars (includes: 12 String, Lap Steel, Slide, Mando, Baritone), Acoustic Guitars, Harmonica, Backing Vocals
Debbie Duke – Upright Electric Bass, Trumpet, Melodica
Dan Feiszli – Electric & Acoustic Upright Bass
Mitch Mistel – Bass
Chris Sheldon – Drums
Pete Solley – Hammond B-3 Organ
Mike Scaglione – Soprano Saxophone
Debbie Spring – Viola
Jack Stamatas – Violin, Recorder
Stephanie Callahan – Backing Vocal
Brian Franklin – Electric Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocal
Brendan Buckley – Drum Programming
About The Great Impossible:
Diane Ward’s album, “The Great Impossible,” is the culmination of a year’s work, and is a masterful reflection of the Florida singer/songwriter’s significant talent. It began as her 2 previous albums had started: with a musical emotion that surfaces before the story develops, inspiring the lyrics and the melody. “The Great Impossible” is a personal take on the bigness of love, and the struggles to access it. To Diane, “This is the stuff that scars us and defines who we are.”
The music showcases an artist who has mastered her craft, and honed her songwriting skill until it slices through the pretenses of pop music. Songs like “Fade” chronicle the lives of people who feel invisible and hopeless, while “Baby Look Up” is a song of encouragement and inspiration. The haunting title track “The Great Impossible” sums up the eternal journey of finding lasting love.
And then there is the matter of her Voice. “… The sounds coming from the (recording) booth on this summer night – ghostly …pitch perfect, tough and fragile at once – boggle,” says, Greg Baker – Street Magazine. Diane’s signature voice has power and range, but it’s the nuances and raw emotion that ultimately connect her with the listener. In “Class of 2000”, Diane’s vocals soar with depth and coloration. “Perfect Kiss,” is a tale of love at first sight and her voice leads us from the breathless beginning to the sensual finish of a desired love affair.
Highlight:
Title track ‘The Great Impossible’ and ‘Baby Look Up’ are 2 song up prominently featured in the 2013 award-winning independent film, “Calloused Hands starring Andrew Royo.
About Diane’s music from writer & director of Calloused Hands, Jesse Quinones “i first came across diane ward’s music 15 years ago as a teenager. i always remember loving how delicately she was able to balance pain and love in a single song. her music hits you right in the gut. when i started developing calloused hands, i was very aware that this was a film that also needed to come from the gut. i listened to diane’s album ‘great impossible’ while i wrote the screenplay to help take me back to that place. according to my itunes i listened to baby look up 160 times. i knew the film would need music like this, that could capture those intense feelings. gratefully diane said yes to allowing us to use both ‘great impossible’ and ‘baby look up’ in the film. the film wouldn’t be the same without it.” – Jesse Quinones