I'm Ready is a 1978 album by Chicago blues veteran Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...

. The second of Waters' Johnny Winter

Johnny Winter

John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. Best known for his late 1960s and 1970s high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues legend Muddy Waters...

-produced albums for the Blue Sky Records

Blue Sky Records

Blue Sky Records was a custom label created by Steve Paul for Columbia Records, featuring acts managed by Steve Paul, primarily Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, David Johansen and Muddy Waters.-History:...

 label, I'm Ready was issued one year after he found renewed commercial and critical success with Hard Again

Hard Again

Hard Again is a 1977 Chicago-style electric blues album by Muddy Waters. It was recorded by its producer, Johnny Winter, in a rough, bare-bones style...

. The album earned Waters a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 in 1978. It was reissued in 2004 by the Epic/Legacy

Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records under the leadership of Jerry Shulman, Richard Bauer, Gary Pacheco and Amy Herot to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated...

 label with three additional songs.

Track listing

All tracks composed by McKinley Morganfield; except where indicated

1. "I'm Ready
   I'm Ready (Blues song)
   "I'm Ready" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. It was a hit, spending nine weeks on the Billboard R&B chart where it reached #4...
   
   " (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
   ) (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
   Rock Me Baby (song)
   "Rock Me Baby" is a blues standard that has become one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. When B.B. King released "Rock Me Baby" in 1964, it became a Top 40 hit reaching #34 in the Billboard Hot 100. The song is based on earlier blues songs and has been interpreted and recorded by a...
   
   " (3:54)
8. "Screamin' And Cryin'" (5:04)
9. "Good Morning, Little School Girl
   Good Morning, School Girl
   "Good Morning, School Girl" or "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" is a blues standard that has been "covered countless times across the decades"...
   
   " (Sonny Boy Williamson
   Sonny Boy Williamson I
   Sonny Boy Williamson was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson.-Biography and career:...
   
   ) (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
  Jimmy Rogers
  Jimmy Rogers was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s.-Career:...
  
   – guitar
• Big Walter Horton
  Big Walter Horton
  Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton, was an American blues harmonica player. A quiet, unassuming and essentially shy man, Horton is remembered as one of the premier harmonica players in the history of blues...
  
   – acoustic and amplified harmonica
• Bob Margolin
  Bob Margolin
  Bob Margolin is an American electric blues guitarist. His nickname is "Steady Rollin'".-Biography:Bob Margolin was born and raised in Brookline...
  
   – guitar/bass
• Pinetop Perkins
  Pinetop Perkins
  Joseph William Perkins , known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues musician, specializing in piano music...
  
   – piano
• Willie "Big Eyes" Smith – drums
• Johnny Winter
  Johnny Winter
  John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. Best known for his late 1960s and 1970s high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues legend Muddy Waters...
  
   – guitar
• Jerry Portnoy
  Jerry Portnoy
  Jerry Portnoy is an American harmonica blues musician, who has toured with Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton.-Biography:Portnoy grew up in Chicago's Maxwell Street neighborhood where his family owned a store...
  
  – amplified harmonica (tracks 1, 4, 5, 7, 9)