Day After Tomorrow (Joan Baez album)

Day After Tomorrow
Studio album by Joan Baez
Released September 9, 2008
Recorded December 2007 – March 2008 in Nashville, TN
Genre Folk
Label Proper
Producer Steve Earle
Joan Baez chronology
Bowery Songs
(2005)		 Day After Tomorrow
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

Day After Tomorrow is an album from American singer and musician Joan Baez, released in 2008. The album features songs written by such composers as Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett, Patty Griffin, Thea Gilmore and Steve Earle. Steve Earle also produced the album. It was recorded in Nashville between December 2007 and March 2008.

The album is released by Proper records in Europe and Razor & Tie in North America. It debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number 100.[3] In the US it became her first charting album in 29 years, reaching number 128 on the Billboard 200 in its opening week.[4]

Contents

Track listings

  1. "God Is God" (Steve Earle) – 3:29
  2. "Rose of Sharon" (Eliza Gilkyson) – 3:34
  3. "Scarlet Tide" (Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett) – 2:25
  4. "Day After Tomorrow" (Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan) – 5:31
  5. "Henry Russell's Last Words" (Diana Jones) – 3:37
  6. "I Am A Wanderer" (Earle) – 2:30
  7. "Mary" (Patty Griffin) – 3:54
  8. "Requiem" (Gilkyson) – 3:55
  9. "The Lower Road" (Thea Gilmore) – 4:11
  10. "Jericho Road" (Earle) – 3:29

Personnel

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
2008 The Billboard 200 128
Top Internet Albums 128
UK Album charts 100

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review
  3. ^ "Official Album Chart for the week ending 20 September 2008". ChartsPlus (Milton Keynes: IQ Ware Ltd) (369): 5–8. 
  4. ^ Bronson, Fred. "Joan Baez back on chart after 29 years". Reuters. September 19, 2008.

External links

Joan Baez
Studio albums
Joan Baez (1960) • Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (1961) • Joan Baez/5 (1964) • Farewell, Angelina (1965) • Noël (1966) • Joan (1967) • Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time (1968) • Any Day Now (1968) • David's Album (1969) • I Live One Day at a Time (1970) • Carry It On (1971) • Blessed Are... (1971) • Come from the Shadows (1972) • Where Are You Now, My Son? (1973) • Gracias a la Vida: Joan Baez canta en español (1974) • Diamonds & Rust (1975) • Gulf Winds (1976) • Blowin' Away (1977) • Honest Lullaby (1979) • Recently (1987) • Speaking of Dreams (1989) • Play Me Backwards (1992) • Gone From Danger (1997) • Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (2003) • Day after Tomorrow (2008)
Live albums
Joan Baez in Concert (1962) • Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 (1963) • From Every Stage (1976) • Live Europe 83 (1983) • Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (1988) • Ring Them Bells (1995) • Live at Newport (1996; recorded 1963-65) • Bowery Songs (2005)
Compilations
Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square (1959) • Portrait of Joan Baez (1967)  • The First 10 Years (1970) • The Joan Baez Ballad Book (1972) • Hits: Greatest and Others (1973) • The Contemporary Ballad Book (1974) • The Joan Baez Lovesong Album (1976) • Best of Joan C. Baez (1977) • The Joan Baez Country Music Album (1979) • Joan Baez: Classics (1986) • Rare, Live & Classic (1993) • Best of Joan Baez: The Millennium Collection (2000) • The Complete A&M Recordings (2003)
Notable songs
"Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" • "China" • "Day After Tomorrow" • "Diamonds & Rust" • "Farewell, Angelina" • "Forever Young" • "Here's to You"  • "Honest Lullaby" • "House of the Rising Sun" • "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" • "Joe Hill" • "Lily of the West" • "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" • "Love Song to a Stranger" • "Mary Hamilton" • "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" • "Recently" • "Reunion Hill" • "Rexroth's Daughter" • "Scarlet Tide" • "Silver Dagger" • "Speaking of Dreams" • "Stones in the Road" • "Sweet Sir Galahad" • "There but for Fortune" • "We Shall Overcome" • "What Have They Done to the Rain"
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