I Am Ready

I Am Ready

Studio album by

Steve Wariner

Released

October 22, 1991

Recorded

1991 at Nightingale Studio and Masterfonics, Nashville, TN

Genre

Country

Length

36:32

Label

Arista Nashville

Producer

Scott Hendricks
Tim DuBois

Steve Wariner chronology

Laredo
(1990)

I Am Ready
(1991)

Drive
(1994)

Singles from I Am Ready

"Leave Him Out of This"
Released: September 16, 1991
"The Tips of My Fingers"
Released: February 8, 1992
"A Woman Loves"
Released: May 30, 1992
"Crash Course in the Blues"
Released: September 12, 1992
"Like a River to the Sea"
Released: February 20, 1993

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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Entertainment Weekly	B− link

I Am Ready is American country music artist Steve Wariner's tenth studio album. It was released in 1991 on Arista Nashville as his first for the label, following his departure from MCA Records. Singles from the album include "Leave Him Out of This", "The Tips of My Fingers" (a cover of Bill Anderson's 1960 hit), "A Woman Loves", "Crash Course in the Blues" and "Like a River to the Sea". Respectively, these reached #6, #3, #9, #32 and #30 on the Billboard country charts. The album was certified gold by the RIAA, and was Wariner's first album to achieve that certification.

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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"On My Heart Again"	Bob DiPiero, Dennis Robbins, John Scott Sherrill	2:51
2.	"The Tips of My Fingers"	Bill Anderson	3:39
3.	"When Will I Let Go"	Steve Wariner, Jim Weatherly	3:10
4.	"Leave Him Out of This"	Walt Aldridge, Susan Longacre	3:56
5.	"Like a River to the Sea"	Wariner	4:36
6.	"Everything's Gonna Be Alright"	Bill LaBounty, Wariner	4:02
7.	"A Woman Loves""	Steve Bogard, Rick Giles	3:53
8.	"My, How The Time Don't Fly""	Kent Robbins, Wariner	3:40
9.	"Gone Out of My Mind"	Gene Dobbins, Michael Huffman, Bob Morrison	3:12
10.	"Crash Course in the Blues"	Don Cook, John Barlow Jarvis, Wariner	3:53

Production

Produced By Scott Hendricks & Tim DuBois
Recorded & Engineered By Bill Deaton & Scott Hendricks
Additional Recording & Engineering By Scott Hendricks, Mike Clute & John Kunz
Mixed By Scott Hendricks; Additional Mix Engineering By John Kunz, Brad Jones, Gary Paczosa & Greg Parker
Digital Editing By Glenn Meadows
Mastered By Denny Purcell

Personnel

Eddie Bayers – drums (all tracks)
Bruce Bouton – steel guitar (track 8)
Carol Chase – background vocals (track 9)
Bill Cuomo – keyboards (tracks 4, 5), organ (tracks 2, 7), piano (track 3)
Bob DiPiero – background vocals (track 1)
Buddy Emmons – steel guitar (track 6)
Sonny Garrish – steel guitar (all tracks except 8 & 10)
Steve Gibson – 12-string electric guitar (track 1), electric guitar (track 4), mandolin (track 3)
Vince Gill – background vocals (tracks 2, 4)
Scott Hendricks – acoustic guitar (track 4), electric guitar (track 7), floor tom (track 8), power piano (track 4)
David Hungate – bass guitar (all tracks)
John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards (track 6), piano (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10), Wurlitzer (tracks 3, 8)
Albert Lee – electric guitar (track 10)
Allyn Love – steel guitar (track 9)
Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 3, 7-9)
Terry McMillan – percussion (tracks 3, 5, 6), harmonica (track 10)
Mark O'Connor – fiddle (tracks 2, 3, 5, 9, 10)
John Scott Sherrill – background vocals (track 1)
Harry Stinson – background vocals (track 6)
Billy Thomas – background vocals (tracks 4, 7)
Wendy Waldman – background vocals (track 6)
Steve Wariner – lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 2, 3, 8), acoustic guitar solo (track 6), Del Vechio guitar (track 5), electric guitar (track 10), electric guitar solo (track 8)
Reggie Young – electric guitar (all tracks)
Andrea Zonn – background vocals (track 2)

Chart performance

Chart (1991)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	28
U.S. Billboard 200	180
Canadian RPM Country Albums	16

v t e Steve Wariner
Studio albums	Steve Wariner Midnight Fire One Good Night Deserves Another Life's Highway It's a Crazy World I Should Be with You I Got Dreams Laredo I Am Ready Drive No More Mr. Nice Guy Burnin' the Roadhouse Down Two Teardrops Faith in You Steal Another Day
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits (1987)
Notable singles	"I'm Already Taken" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" "Your Memory" "By Now" "All Roads Lead to You" "Kansas City Lights" "Midnight Fire" "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers" "Why Goodbye" "What I Didn't Do" "Heart Trouble" "Some Fools Never Learn" "You Can Dream of Me" "Life's Highway" "Starting Over Again" "Small Town Girl" "The Weekend" "Lynda" "Baby I'm Yours" "I Should Be with You" "Hold On (A Little Longer) "Where Did I Go Wrong" "I Got Dreams" "When I Could Come Home to You" "The Domino Theory" "Precious Thing" "There for Awhile" "Leave Him Out of This" "The Tip of My Fingers" "A Woman Loves" "If I Didn't Love You" "Drivin' and Cryin'" "It Won't Be Over You" "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" "Burnin' the Roadhouse Down" "Two Teardrops" "Katie Wants a Fast One"
Guest singles	"That's How You Know When Love's Right" "That Hand That Rocks the Cradle" "What If I Said" "Been There"
Related articles	Discography "Longneck Bottle" "One Small Miracle" "Nothin' but the Taillights" "Where the Blacktop Ends"

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