| Ready or Not | |
| Type: | live |
| Cover: | Grateful-Dead-Ready-or-Not.jpg |
| Alt: | Two skeletons – one wearing jester clothing, the other wearing an American flag shirt |
| Released: | November 22, 2019 |
| Recorded: | June 23, 1992 – April 2, 1995 |
| Length: | 79:53 |
| Producer: | Grateful Dead |
| Prev Year: | 2019 |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
Ready or Not is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains nine songs recorded at various venues from 1992 to 1995. It was released on November 22, 2019, in LP and CD format.
See main article: Unfinished Grateful Dead album. In February 1992, the Grateful Dead began work on recording a new studio album. That album was never completed, and the group disbanded in 1995 following the death of Jerry Garcia. Most likely the unfinished studio album would have included the songs that appear on Ready or Not.
On AllMusic, Fred Thomas wrote, "Ready or Not indeed offers a glimpse of what another studio album from what turned out to be the group's later phase would have sounded like, only with the buffer of comfort that comes from them working out the songs on-stage. It's a document not quite like any of the Dead's hundreds of other archival releases, zeroing in on unfamiliar and exciting material."
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