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] It was also nominated for a Grammy (Best Contemporary Folk Album).

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

• Joan Baez – vocals, guitar
• Steve Earle – guitar, harmonium, background vocals, tamboura
• Viktor Krauss – bass
• Kenny Malone – drums, percussion
• Tim O'Brien – fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, background vocals
• Darrell Scott – guitar, dobro, bouzouki, Hawaiian guitar, banjolin, resonator guitar, background vocals
• Thea Gilmore – harmony vocals
• Siobhan Maher-Kennedy – harmony vocals

Chart positions

References

External links

• Observer Music Monthly
• Proper Records website