Working between tours at studios in Seattle, Los Angeles and Charlottesville, Dave Matthews Band chose to record with several different producers, including John Alagia, Mark Batson, Rob Cavallo and Rob Evans. Nine of the 14 tracks on Come Tomorrow were played live prior to the official album announcement on April 25, 2018. "Do You Remember" was debuted at Farm Aid in 2017, "Again and Again" appeared on DMB setlists in 2016 as "Bob Law", "Samurai Cop" had been a regular at Dave solo, Dave & Tim acoustic and full band shows since 2016, "Here on Out" was played live just once before the announcement and that came on the Seasons of Cuba PBS-televised special in 2016 with Dave being backed by the Chamber Orchestra of Havana. The band had regularly featured "Black and Blue Bird" and "Virginia in the Rain" at shows since 2015. The longest-tenured songs on the album are "Can't Stop" and "Idea of You", both of which had been in the band's rotation since 2006. It was originally reported that “Come On Come On” was written in 2008, at an early session of the band's recording of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, but the October 2018 leak of “The Batson Sessions” revealed that the song was virtually unchanged from an April 2006 session with Mark Batson. An extended version of "bkdkdkdd" was previously performed live under the title "Be Yourself". The cover art for the album is by Béatrice Coron.
Commercial performance
Come Tomorrow debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 292,000 album-equivalent units, making it the biggest sales week for a rock album in over four years, and the biggest sales week for an album in 2018, with 285,000 copies sold.
Track listing
The track listing for the album was announced on May 2, 2018. All songs written by David J. Matthews except where noted.
Butch Taylor – piano on "Can't Stop", "Come On Come On", and "Idea of You"
Boyd Tinsley – violin on "Idea of You"
Jerry Hey – horn arrangement on "Samurai Cop " and "Again and Again"
David Campbell – string arrangement on "Here On Out" and "Again and Again"
Rob Cavallo – organ on "Samurai Cop ", electric piano on "bkdkdkdd"
Production
Producer – John Alagía, Mark Batson, Rob Cavallo, Rob Evans
Engineer – Andrew Ching, Andy Park, Doug McKean, Julian Anderson, Matt Dyson, Rob Evans, Tom Rasulo, Steven Miller, Wesley Seidman, Aaron Fessel, John Alagía, Chris Kress, Pedro Calloni, Jason Shavey, Sean Quackenbush
Mixing engineer – John Alagía, Rob Evans, Doug McKean, Billy Centenaro
