Impossible Dream

"Impossible Dream" is Patty Griffin's fifth commercially released album. It was released on April 20, 2004. The album features a hidden track - Griffin's mother and father singing "The Impossible Dream" - at the end of "Top of the World."

"Impossible Dream" reached a peak of number 67 on the Billboard 200 chart, [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=66222&model.vnuAlbumId=620825 Artist chart history for Patty Griffin] , Billboard.com.] selling 16,000 copies in the United States in its first week. [Caulfield, Keith. [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000503346 "Ask Billboard - Griffin's 'Impossible Dream'"] . "Billboard". May 5 2004.]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Patty Griffith

#"Love Throw a Line" – 3:38
#"Cold as It Gets" – 2:38
#"Kite Song" – 3:09
#"Standing" – 4:04
#"Useless Desires" – 5:50
#"Top of the World" – 5:28
#"Rowing Song" – 3:26
#"When It Don't Come Easy" – 4:52
#"Florida" – 5:01
#"Mother of God" – 7:14
#"Icicles" – 3:18

Personnel

Patty Griffith - vocals, guitar, piano
*Emmylou Harris - background vocals
*Lisa Germano - violin, zither
*Ian McLagan - electric piano
*Julie Miller - background vocals
*Billy Beard - drums
*Brian Beattie - bowed bass, pump organ
*Doug Lancio - guitar, mandolin
*Michael Ramos - trumpet
*Frank Swart - bass
*Sumner Erickson - tuba
*John Deaderick - organ
*Brady Blade, Jr. - drums
*J.A. Foster - bass, percussion
*Jonathan Greene - drums

References

External links

* [http://lyrics.pattynet.net/#4 Lyrics to the album on PattyNet.net]