I'm Ready (Muddy Waters album)
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| Studio album by Muddy Waters | ||||
| Released | January 1978 | |||
| Recorded | Westport, Connecticut October–November 1977 |
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| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 56:18 | |||
| Label | Blue Sky (Cat. No. 34928) | |||
| Producer | Johnny Winter | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Blender | [2] |
| The Village Voice | B+[3] |
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.[4] 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
- "I'm Ready" (Willie Dixon) (3:26)
- "33 Years" (5:20)
- "Who Do You Trust" (5:00)
- "Copper Brown" (4:58)
- "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) (3:59)
- "Mamie" (Morganfield, Jimmy Rogers) (5:35)
- "Rock Me" (3:54)
- "Screamin' And Cryin'" (5:04)
- "Good Morning, Little School Girl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) (3:27)
- "No Escape From The Blues" (6:18)
- "That's Alright" (4:58)
- "Lonely Man Blues" (4:19)
Tracks 10-12 are added to the album reissue.
Personnel
- Muddy Waters – vocal & guitar
- Jimmy Rogers – guitar
- Big Walter Horton – acoustic and amplified harmonica
- Bob Margolin – guitar/bass
- Pinetop Perkins – piano
- Willie "Big Eyes" Smith – drums
- Johnny Winter – guitar
- Jerry Portnoy – amplified harmonica (tracks 1, 4, 5, 7, 9)
