Day After Tomorrow

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Joan Baez, whose career spans five super-impressive decades, proves she is still a force to be reckoned with on this 24th studio album. Focusing on major topics like wartime, religion and death, Baez has teamed up with Steve Earle, who has not only produced the album but contributed three songs (two new compositions, and an a cappella version of his "Jericho Road"). As on previous collections, what makes this particular record a resounding success is the choice of songs. Baez covers tunes by Eliza Gilkyson, Diana Jones, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett, as well as British songwriter Thea Gilmore. Though the compositions are generally upbeat, the mood is reflective as Baez's famed soprano--shorn of some of its top notes by now--weaves its spell over these largely acoustic numbers. The standout song is perhaps the title track, an affecting Iraq War ballad originally penned by Tom Waits. Where Waits typically performs it in his inimitably grizzled manner, Baez plays it gently, accompanied by insouciant acoustic guitar, subsequently transforming it into an even more human and fragile moment. A dazzling collection. i--Danny McKenna/i

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-05-11 rating:
All the best creations mellow with age!!
Mmm, the more I listen to this the better it gets! Joan Baez gives us some lovely songs here and I love her teaming up with various other big names... if you're an Emmylou and McGarrigle Sisters' fan, then you'll enjoy the creations here. Give yourself time to relax with it.

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review by: Guirarman date: 2009-03-24 rating:
Let's stop being politically correct!
Almost everyone has viewed this latest CD by Joan Baez in terms of superlatives; but let me now say which no one else apparently dares: Her voice is at best mediocre, and has been so for at least the past fifteen years. For gone is the haunting mezzo soprano possessed by the younger Joan, and in its place is a voice heard all over Britain - in folk clubs. Were this album not by Joan Baez, it would not even receive airtime! I actually am so sorry, as in my youth I was an enormous fan of her beautiful voice; but since it is beautiful no longer, Ms Baez only deserves accolades for her courage in continuing to perform, but certainly not for her performance.

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review by: date: 2008-12-16 rating:
Superb vintage Baez
Joan Baez had come out with 10 new songs (at least new to me). Each one is a gem with a charming melody and meaningful lyrics. The mood of the album is reflective and mystical, religious in places. If you love all the old Joan Baez favourites and appreciate her voice, you'll probably like this as much as I do. My only criticism of this album is that it's a little short (only about 37 minutes overall) but the quality makes up for the lack of quantity. Strongly recommended.

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review by: janeandmick date: 2008-12-02 rating:
Wonderful!
I haven't stopped playing this album since I bought it a few weeks ago. It's haunting, beautiful, buy it! Mary, track 7, is just heart stopping.


review by: Christopher date: 2008-09-23 rating:
(a word in edgeways)
That cover pic: the radiance in those eyes, and that smile! Wow, Joan: so glad to have you back, dear friend. br /The flowers on the cd, the warm heart of a kindred spirit, that never-aging how-could-one-forget soprano. The deep humanity and universality, too. br /By the time the first spin of this cd was through, a 6 or 7 lyric file had been compiled. br / br /Here, amidst all the useless political squabble over our handkerchief-sized Belgium, we've never ceased to find truth in your words ever since the sixties, driving 'the Old Dixie down', strumming along to your Dylan tunes or 'putting the load right on me myself and I'. br /An ode to that fragile planet and that precious inner peace that our kind has been craving for for so long, a wistful homecoming, keeping the dream alive that perhaps, the day after tomorrow we might have learnt and found the dignity and divinity at the core of all creation. br /At the end of the day, what Joan's cd adds up to is the value of that gentle fight to cherish what is best about ourselves. Home, where the heart is. br /Yes, MS Baez, this is hats off to you, GRANDE DAME of any music. Along with you we hope we SHALL overcome and , people willing, rise up and beyond that scarlet tide of bloodshed, of pain and war. Let us search that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and sing, if not pray, your wistful tunes. Let us hit the Jericho Road and embark again on Dr Martin L. King's pilgrimage. br /Who could, cross his heart, say he does not believe in that God, who, ain't, though your cd proves that very statement wrong, me or us. Period. br /Goodness in a grain of sand, as William Blake or Patti Smith had it, and tuned to the humble perfection Tim Hardin's 'simple song of freedom'. br /And what a line-up, too! br / br /Dear Joan, our beloved late mom's last sister just turned 101 last June. What your songs achieve amounts to the very thing that she succeeded in doing. Having lived a self-effacing life of braving the hardships that flesh is heir to without giving in, going thus from strength to inner strength. br /Ans that soprano of yours remains as crystal clear as it ever was. Your message excels in that same humility, not claiming to right the wrongs of this world (in our college days way back then we set out to improve the world, but walked up behind the banners of Chairman Mao's Red Booklet, which, come to think of it, was but a bunch of lies). Then came Vietnam and Woodstock and Altamont and Palestine and all the rest, and the world basically remained unchanged. Like any passer-by you are looking to find the path towards the innermost of truths and the perennial belief in a better world. I cherish these thoughts as much as I do your personality and vision. br /You know what? Over here, "WOW" used to stand for "Waardig Ouder Worden" a tiny political party claiming respect and dignity for the aging. br /How very much you embody that conservative, or rather, conservationist idea. br / br /Sometimes one comes across the odd occasion on which a poetry volume or a piece of music finds one's way as if it had been meant to be found before it was made. This is one such occasion. Life 'ain't heavy' when we are brothers and sisters. br / br /Thank you, Joan. You are not just 'any' tunesmith. You're one of the purest water.

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