I'm Ready is a studio album by the Chicago blues musician Muddy Waters. The second of his 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, with three additional songs.
Following his work on the previous album Hard Again (1977), Johnny Winter was again brought on as producer. The recording featured Jimmy Rogers and Big Walter Horton, both of whom had previously performed with Waters. Rogers had also participated in the original 1954 recording of "I'm Ready". At the time, Bob Margolin, who had been playing guitar in Waters' touring band, felt there was no room for him on this album due to the presence of three guitarists, Waters, Winter, and Rogers, but ultimately joined as bassist at Waters' suggestion.
The 2004 remastered CD included the bonus tracks "No Escape from the Blues", "That's All Right", and "Lonely Man Blues", all of which were outtakes from the sessions recorded for this album. On "That's All Right", Rogers also performed vocals.
The Bay State Banner wrote that "the sharp distinctive tuning and chromatic slurs that mark his playing are still here, even though Waters now takes few slide guitar solos."
All tracks are composed by Muddy Waters (listed as McKinley Morganfield), except where noted.