Impossible Beauty
Impossible Beauty: (3:47)

Contact: Susan Shann (615) 351-3886
mysticsmantramusic@gmail.com

Writer: Susan Shann, ASCAP
Publisher, PRO: Mystics Mantra Music, ASCAP

Release date: 8/1/2018

Produced by Chip Martin, Chip Martin Productions
Additional production, mixing and mastering by “Ren” Renfree, Aren Creative

Susan Shann: guitar, vocals
Chip Martin: additional guitars, bass


There are those moments in life when we catch a glimpse of the divine, when the veil parts and we see beyond our normal experience, into a deeper level of being. This song was inspired by one of those moments. I was at Folk Alliance International in 2017 and had the opportunity to hear these four gentlemen in a bluegrass band lean into one microphone and create a harmony that literally was so beautiful it made me cry. It touched something deep inside me that knew this music intimately, even though I’ve never studied or played much bluegrass in this lifetime. I carried that feeling for days, of a beauty that goes beyond oursenses, beyond our “normal” experience of life, until I could sit down and put it into song form with “Impossible Beauty”, done as a waltz to honor the musical traditions which inspired it’s creation.