| Ready for the Flood | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Mark Olson and Gary Louris |
| Cover: | Ready for the Flood.jpg |
| Released: | December 1, 2008 |
| Recorded: | Sage & Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA |
| Genre: | Alternative country |
| Length: | 55:02 |
| Label: | New West |
| Producer: | Chris Robinson |
| Chronology: | Mark Olson |
| Prev Title: | The Salvation Blues |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Many Colored Kite |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
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.
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]
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."
All songs by Mark Olson & Gary Louris
US Bonus Tracks:
Production notes