Ready for the Flood

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Ready for the Flood
Ready for the Flood.jpg
Studio album by
Mark Olson & Gary Louris
ReleasedDec 1, 2008
RecordedSage & Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre Alternative country
Length55:02
Label New West
Producer Chris Robinson
Mark Olson chronology
The Salvation Blues
(2007)		Ready for the Flood
(2008)		 Many Colored Kite
(2010)
Gary Louris chronology
Acoustic Vagabonds
(2007)		Ready for the Flood
(2008)

Ready for the Flood is an album by former Jayhawks bandmates Mark Olson and Gary Louris, released in Europe on December 1, 2008, and in the US on January 29, 2009. It was their first collaboration since Olson had left the band in 1995.

Mark Olson (musician) American musician

Mark Olson is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of alternative country bands the Jayhawks and the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers.

Gary Louris American musician

Gary Louris is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music. He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band the Jayhawks and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the departure of Mark Olson. Louris is often credited with the band's subsequent move from folk-country toward a more progressive, pop sound.

Contents

The songwriting and recording sessions for the album resulted from a visit by Louris to Olson's home in California in late 2001. The duo asked Chris Robinson to produce the recording. They briefly toured to support the album. [1]

Chris Robinson (singer) American musician

Christopher Mark Robinson is an American musician. He was the singer of the rock and roll band The Black Crowes, is the brother of its guitarist Rich Robinson, and is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Paste (8.3 of 10) [3]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mark Deming called the album "...unlikely to disappoint fans of their old band. But while they mine a thoughtful country-folk vein that's not far removed from Jayhawks territory, Olson and Louris take a somewhat softer, more acoustic-based, balladic approach here than they did in the Jayhawks days, lending Ready for the Flood a warm, honeyed glow." [2]

Track listing

All songs by Mark Olson & Gary Louris

  1. "Rose Society" – 3:12
  2. "Bicycle" – 3:52
  3. "Turn Your Pretty Name Around" – 4:51
  4. "Saturday Morning on Sunday Street" – 3:53
  5. "Kick the Wood" – 4:04
  6. "Chamberlain, SD" – 3:42
  7. "Black Eyes" – 4:25
  8. "Doves And Stones" – 3:22
  9. "My Gospel Song for You" – 3:44
  10. "When the Wind Comes Up" – 3:39
  11. "Bloody Hands" – 3:25
  12. "Life's Warm Sheets" – 2:47
  13. "Trap's Been Set" – 4:08
    US Bonus Tracks:
  14. "Precious Time" – 3:26
  15. "Cotton Dress" – 2:58

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. ↑ Flannigan, Erik. "Alone together again". No Depression . Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Deming, Mark. "Ready for the Flood > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  3. ↑ Harrison, Shane. "Ready for the Flood > Review". Paste . Retrieved June 15, 2011.
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