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Joan Baez - Day After Tomorrow Audio CD

A fair review of the Joan Baez "Day After Tomorrow" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Joan Baez reviews here, or go back to the Joan Baez tabs.

Joan Baez Band: Joan Baez
Title: Day After Tomorrow
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Release Date: 2008-09-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: God Is God (Steve Earle) 2: Rose of Sharon (Eliza Gilkyson) 3: Scarlet Tide (Elvis Costello & Joseph Henry Burnett) 4: Day After Tomorrow (Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan) 5: Henry Russell's Last Words (Diana Jones) 6: I Am A Wanderer (Steve Earle) 7: Mary (Patty Griffin) 8: Requiem (Eliza Gilkyson) 9: The Lower Road (Thea Gilmore) 10: Jericho Road (Steve Earle)

The Secular Saint
What she has always meant for me through her life and her music is her belief that we are capable of rising above our mean, petty selves and being truly alive and human if only we will listen to our better selves and be willing to embrace that same self in others. I believe it was Thomas Merton who referred to Joan as a secular saint. God is God and we remain in that image and can, with effort, regain that likeness. Joan has and she invites us to the journey with all that she is and does. I am proud to live in her time and in her light.


disappointing
She is not sounding as clear and pure. Disappointed in this album. Found the selection and version of the songs lackluster. Did not pack a punch.


Joan is still Joan
. . her voice is not a soprano anymore but alto which perfectly suits this melancholy album. I hope Joan records many many more. She shouldn't stop when there are too few singing these songs. Joan is still relevant and this album is so beautiful.


AS GOOD AS EVER
The reasons you always listened to her are the same reasons to get this one. Joan's still got it.


Joan Baez keeps on bringing great new music
So when I heard bits and pieces of this album not long ago, I was really surprised at what I heard and decided I really needed to check this out in more detail. Let me admit upfront that I hadn't listened to a Joan Baez studio album proper in ages. Boy, am I glad I did.

"Day After Tomorrow" (10 tracks; 37 min. ) has Steve Earle's fingers all over it: he produced the album, and also contributes 3 tracks (2 of which were specifically written for this). Given that Baez has been touring with Earle in recent years, none of this should be a surprise. "God Is God", one of those Earle-songs, opens the album beautifully. "Scarlett Tide" is a cover of an Elvis Costello/T-Bone Burnett song, and almost surpasses the original (sung by Alison Krauss). The title track is a beautiful acoustic song, just Joan and her guitar. "I Am a Wanderer" is another of the Earle-songs, a whistful yet playful tune. "Mary" is a nice Patty Griffin cover. The stand-out track on here, though, is the album closer: a cover of Earle's "Jericho Road" (from his 2003 "Washington Square Serenade" album), which I find frankly better than the original song, and that's saying something.

In all, I can't emphasize enough how pleasantly surprised I've been by this album. When this came out last September, Joan Baez was 67, and this album truly belies her age. Not unlike, say, her contemporary Bob Dylan, who himself is coming out later this month with a highly anticipated new album, "Together Through Life". Meanwhile, "Day After Tomorrow" is highly recommended!.


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