Tomorrow's Sounds Today is the twelfth album by country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Dwight Yoakam

Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...

. It rose to No. 7 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

 Country Albums chart. There were two charting singles among its tracks: "What Do You Know About Love" at No. 26 and "I Want You to Want Me" (a cover of the Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...

 song) at No. 49 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart. Also included are two duets with Buck Owens

Buck Owens

Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...

, who was a big influence on Yoakam's musical style.

Track listing

All songs written by Dwight Yoakam except where noted.

1. "Love Caught Up to Me" - 3:50
2. "What Do You Know About Love" - 2:56
3. "Time Spent Missing You" - 3:05
4. "Free to Go" - 4:48
5. "A Promise You Can't Keep" - 3:11
6. "A Place to Cry" - 4:35
7. "The Sad Side of Town" (Yoakam, Buck Owens) - 2:52
8. "Dreams of Clay" - 3:51
9. "For Love's Sake" - 3:06
10. "The Heartaches Are Free" - 2:55
11. "A World of Blue" - 2:21
12. "I Want You to Want Me
    I Want You to Want Me
    "I Want You to Want Me" is a song by Cheap Trick which first appeared on their second album In Color in 1977. It was the first single released from that album but it didn't chart in the US. However, it was a #1 single in Japan...
    
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    ) - 3:28
13. "Alright, I'm Wrong" (Pete Anderson, Cisco) - 4:16
    • duet with Buck Owens
14. "I Was There" (Owens) - 3:04
    • duet with Buck Owens

Personnel

From liner notes.

• Pete Anderson
  Pete Anderson
  Pete Anderson is an American guitarist and music producer.Anderson is most known for his guitar work with, and critically acclaimed production of, country music star Dwight Yoakam from 1984 through 2002...
  
   – electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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  , baritone guitar
  Baritone guitar
  The baritone guitar is a variation on the standard guitar, with a longer scale length that allows it to be tuned to a lower range. It first appeared in the classical music realm...
  
  , percussion
• Al Bonhomme – acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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• Jim Christie – drums
• Jonathan Clark – background vocals
• Skip Edwards – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Chris Hillman
  Chris Hillman
  Christopher Hillman was one of the original members of The Byrds which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke....
  
   – mandolin
  Mandolin
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• Flaco Jiménez
  Flaco Jiménez
  Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez is a Tejano music accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. Jiménez's father, Santiago Jiménez Sr. was a pioneer of conjunto music. He began performing with his father at age seven and recording at age fifteen, as a member of Los Caporales...
  
   – accordion
  Accordion
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• Scott Joss – fiddle
  Fiddle
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• Jim Lauderdale
  Jim Lauderdale
  Jim Lauderdale is a musician & singer-songwriter who performs bluegrass and country music. He has recorded since 1986 and has released nineteen studio albums. Artists who have recorded his material include George Strait and Patty Loveless.-Biography:...
  
   – background vocals
• Gary Morse — steel guitar
  Steel guitar
  Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
  
  
• Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Don Reed – fiddle
• Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar

Album

Chart (2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	7
U.S. Billboard 200	68

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
2000	"What Do You Know About Love"	26
2001	"I Want You to Want Me I Want You to Want Me "I Want You to Want Me" is a song by Cheap Trick which first appeared on their second album In Color in 1977. It was the first single released from that album but it didn't chart in the US. However, it was a #1 single in Japan... "	49
	"I Was There" (with Buck Owens Buck Owens Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos... )	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart