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.

The songwriting and recording sessions for the album resulted from a visit by Louris to Olson's home in California in late 2001.

[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.

"[2] All songs by Mark Olson & Gary Louris Production notes