I'm Ready (Muddy Waters album)

I'm Ready
Studio album by Muddy Waters
Released	January 1978 (1978-01)
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)Hard Again1977 I'm Ready (1978) Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live (1979)Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live1979

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Blender
The Village Voice	B+

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. 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

• 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)