I'm Ready (Muddy Waters album)

I'm Ready
Studio album by Muddy Waters
Released January 1978
Recorded Westport, Connecticut
October–November 1977
Genre Blues
Length 56:18
Label Blue Sky (Cat. No. 34928)
Producer Johnny Winter
Muddy Waters chronology

Hard Again
(1977)		 I'm Ready
(1978)		 Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau (B)[2]

I'm Ready is the thirteenth studio album by Chicago blues veteran Muddy Waters. The second of Waters' Johnny Winter-produced albums for the Blue Sky Records label, I'm Ready was issued one year after he found renewed commercial and critical success with Hard Again. The album earned Waters a Grammy Award in 1978.[3] It was reissued in 2004 by the Epic/Legacy label with three additional songs.

Track listing

All tracks composed by McKinley Morganfield; except where indicated

  1. "I'm Ready" (Willie Dixon) (3:26)
  2. "33 Years" (5:20)
  3. "Who Do You Trust" (5:00)
  4. "Copper Brown" (4:58)
  5. "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) (3:59)
  6. "Mamie" (Morganfield, Jimmy Rogers) (5:35)
  7. "Rock Me" (3:54)
  8. "Screamin' And Cryin'" (5:04)
  9. "Good Morning, Little School Girl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) (3:27)
  10. "No Escape From The Blues" (6:18)
  11. "That's Alright" (4:58)
  12. "Lonely Man Blues" (4:19)

Tracks 10-12 are added to the album reissue.

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Gordon, Keith A. "Review: I'm Ready". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Consumer Guide Reviews: Muddy Waters" (PHP). Robert Christgau. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Grammy Award Winners". The Recording Academy. 1978. Retrieved 2009-10-31.