Muddy Waters - I'm Ready - Canada Issue - Blues - LP
LP

Muddy Waters - I'm Ready

Label: Epic, Blue Sky
Catalog#: PZ 34928, PZ 34928
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Record: VG++
Cover: VG++ minor wear
includes inner sleeve VG++
Country: Canada issue
Released: 1978
Genre: Blues
Style: Chicago Blues

Tracklist

A1 I'm Ready

A2 33 Years

A3 Who Do You Trust

A4 Copper Brown



B1 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man

B2 Mamie

B3 Rock Me

B4 Screamin' And Cryin'

B5 Good Morning Little School Girl




Credits
Artwork By [Cover Painting] - Phil Hays
Bass - Bob Margolin
Drums - Willie "The Lion" Smith
Engineer, Mixed By - Dave Still
Mastered By - Greg Calbi
Piano - "Pine Top" Perkins
Producer, Mixed By - Johnny Winter
Vocals - Muddy Waters
Notes
- Manufactured by CBS Records Canada, Ltd. T.M. Owner "Epic"



The second of Muddy Waters' Blue Sky-albums, "I'm Ready" was originally issued in 1978, one year after Muddy had found renewed commercial and critical success with "Hard Again".

Johnny Winter produced and played on the album. Muddy Waters in the company of Chicago blues greats Jimmy Rogers and Big Walter Horton, playing a supremely confident set of gritty, muscular electric blues. And the core of the Muddy Waters band is in place as well, of course, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith on drums and the great Joe "Pinetop" Perkins rolling the ivories.
Muddy's regular second guitarist Bob Margolin plays bass on this album, and he has contributed a wonderful, intimate six-page essay about the "I'm Ready" sessions. Margolin was instrumental in bringing guitarist Jimmy Rogers, a member of the very first Muddy Waters band in the late 40s, on board, and at his suggestion the great Walter Horton was hired to play the harmonica. Horton's exceptional playing is constantly smouldering beneath the gritty guitar parts of Waters, Rogers, and Johnny Winter.

The numerous highlights include the hard-hitting title track, the slow grind of "33 Years", the swaggering power of "Rock Me", and of course an excellent re-recording of the classic "Hoochie Coochie Man"

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Muddy Waters - I'm Ready

Everything comes together great in this song. Good beat, great singer, funny lyrics.



Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man


To me, the definitive way to play blues - slow and sleazy.