Ready or Not (Grateful Dead album)
# Ready or Not (Grateful Dead album)

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.

## 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.

## Critical reception

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."

## Personnel

Grateful Dead

* Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
* Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
* Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
* Bill Kreutzmann – drums
* Mickey Hart – drums
* Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals

Production

* Produced by Grateful Dead
* Produced for release by David Lemieux
* Associate Producers: Doran Tyson & Ivette Ramos
* Recording: Dan Healy, John Cutler
* Mastering: David Glasser
* Cover art: Ruben Perez
* Photos: Bob Minkin
* Design: Steve Vance
* Liner notes: Jesse Jarnow

## Charts

| Chart (2019) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| US Billboard 200 | 172 |
