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You Gotta Be Ready for Love (If You Wanna Be Mine) (2008 Remaster) by Bonnie Raitt album cover

You Gotta Be Ready for Love (If You Wanna Be Mine) (2008 Remaster)

by Bonnie Raitt

About This Song

About "You Gotta Be Ready for Love (If You Wanna Be Mine) (2008 Remaster)" by Bonnie Raitt

A slow-burning blues-rock ultimatum, Raitt's 1970s vocal coils like smoke through a dimly lit room. The title's demand becomes a velvet threat—tender yet unyielding—as warm organ swells and slide guitar simmer beneath a calm surface of romantic patience that could crack into heartbreak at any moment.