Are You Ready

For the Joanne song, see Are You Ready. For the AC/DC song, see Are You Ready (AC/DC song).

Are You Ready is a 2005 album by Blue Rodeo whose first single was "Rena".

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The Canadian iTunes Music Store version also features a bonus track called "Green Room".

The title track is a more upbeat version of a song that appears on Greg Keelor's second solo album, Seven Songs for Jim.
"Rena" is named for Jim Cuddy's wife, Rena Polley. The first single off the album, it has been described as "a sonic return to [the band's] Casino-era roots".^[1]
Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains plays tin whistle and Uilleann pipes on "Phaedra's Meadow".
"Runaway Train" mentions The Sleeping Giant, a geological formation near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
"Beverley Street" was originally intended for Diamond Mine, but the band had forgotten about it long ago. They relearned of its existence only in 2004, thanks to some friends who had bootlegged a concert featuring this song and performed their own version for bassist Bazil Donovan.^[2] The song itself references Beverley Street in Toronto, a north-south street that starts at Queen Street West and extends north to College Street, where it turns into St. George Street.
The "Finger Lakes" referred to in the song are a group of 11 long, narrow lakes in upstate New York. Jim Cuddy has often said at concerts that the song is at least partially based on his relationship with his father.

Lyrics at bluerodeo.com
Guitar Tabs at Stratomaster.ca
- Note: neither this site nor the lyrics page on Bluerodeo.com have "Green Room".

Blue Rodeo
Outskirts \| Diamond Mine \| Casino \| Lost Together \| Five Days in July \| Nowhere to Here \| Tremolo \| Just Like a Vacation \| The Days in Between \| Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 \| Palace of Gold \| Are You Ready