Day After Tomorrow (Joan Baez album)

For other uses, see The Day After Tomorrow (disambiguation).
Day After Tomorrow
Studio album by
Joan Baez
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2008
RecordedDecember 2007 – March 2008
Studio
  • Sound Emporium (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Room & Board Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreFolk
LabelProper
ProducerSteve Earle
Joan Baez chronology
Bowery Songs
(2005) 		Day After Tomorrow
(2008) 		Whistle Down the Wind
(2018)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]

Day After Tomorrow the twenty-fifth studio album (and twenty-seventh overall) by the American singer and musician Joan Baez, released in 2008. It was her first studio album in 5 years. The album features songs written by such composers as Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett, Patty Griffin, Thea Gilmore and Steve Earle. Earle also produced the album. It was recorded in Nashville between December 2007 and March 2008. The album had the dedication "to my Mom in her 96th year".[3]

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.[4] In the US it became her first charting album in 29 years, reaching number 128 on the Billboard 200 in its opening week.[5] It was also nominated for a Grammy (Best Contemporary Folk Album).

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