I'm so glad
James Skip Lyrics

@willardarmbruster8111

I wasn’t worried

@mladen5016

Clapton ALWAYS credited Skip James when playing this song. You're nothing but a wisea*s mutt..

@Hiwatt100W1

Incredible performance. Just amazing guitar playing- almost banjo-like with the rolls...

@gtrrobster

Yes. For some reason I have not listened to skip James. Lots of the other famous guys, but somehow overlooked skip.

I agree. His right hand is very quick and bright like a banjo.

@Allan-et5ig

guitar playing is incredible.

@fuzzface8252

His playing was always incredible. A lot of his 1931 recordings had a really eerie quality to them as well, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZ6DoeimP4

@Allan-et5ig

@@fuzzface8252 Thanks for this link.

@NickiBullock

I'm so glad this is on the internet and we can listen to, enjoy it, 89 years after it was recorded! Very glad :D

@ernestodelaserna9494

Over thousands of years the Mississippi River put down a vast alluvial plane of fine silt that grew cotton plants and blues music, which clothed the body and soothed the soul.

@hidekun1966

I first knew this song through Cream and then Deep Purple, and the original is here at last!

@LowRider1500

jethro tull's cover is awesome too :D

@raymondgarcia4036

Same! And in that order too!

@On_Dust

I know this from Scot Richard Case.

@aaron4wilkins

I was lucky to have this version on vinyl in the 1970's

@Shin-ei_Official

Amazing right hand on Mr. James!

@josepheaton8137

My favorite version

@fredrikberg4516

Skip James is superior!

@UncleWally3

Well, that deserves another listen.

@MysticMountainGems

I effing love this song.

@mfb3042

He turned that into a beautiful song.

@trfesok

Besides Cream, it was also covered by Deep Purple, and a pre-Purple band called The Maze, which feature two Purple people. So, I put all 4 in my DP playlist. Thanks for the upload!

@slent5346

The deep purple one ain't a cover at all. The lyrics might be similiar but are actually quite different. Tho I will deny for a fact that they might have simply ripped it off from James.

This is a beautiful performance ❤️

@caiojuliocesar1

fantastic

@pedroa.cantero9449

Entre las figuras ancestrales, Skip James destaca por su originalidad y maestría, tanto en temas como en expresión melódica y hondura. Su son no solo era diferente al resto sino que marcaría derroteros en músicos de los años sesenta, hasta el punto de hacerlo revivir al modo de un viejo fantasma que aguarda la resurrección de manos de nuevas criaturas. Yo mismo supe de él indirectamente en las piezas de Canned Heat y no sería hasta mi vejez que me habitaría sepultado por aquellas voces que consideré llegadas de un más allá sin cauce, dejándome amamantar por la ensoñación de un resurgir angélico.

@KyleGravesLive

Thank you

@murattaner7384

I wanna play like this :)))))))

@inthestyx5641

So good, so so good...

@davidnoriega9042

Awesome pure playing.

@silverfishes2008

So beautiful! Love it!

@gudlisner501

Whatever other faults they had/have, The Rolling Stones were quite good at giving credit where it was due. As I recall they had quite a bit in the UK with Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster” and he got what was due.

@Philharpo

Wonderful..

@andrewcutts3197

Happy heavenly birthday.

@dougpeters1625

this is amazing.

@msteven515

Monumental.

@raymondtonns2521

awesome

@MarcoAGJ

Good stuff.

@1voyher1

thaanks never heard the original before - nice geetar work and vocals - i also found original cats squirrel - nice

@andrij3078

Oh i'm so glad that he's so glad

@MrMLD1972

👍🏾

@darklingeraeld-ridge7946

Utterly transcendant.

@jean-micheldehalu6572

I'm so glad, and I am glad
I am glad, I am glad
I don't know what to do
Don't know what to do, I don't know what to do
I'm tired of weepin', tired of moanin'
Tired of groanin' for you
And I'm so glad, I am glad
I am glad, I'm glad
I'm tired of weepin', tired of moanin'
Tired of groanin' for you
And I'm so glad and I am glad
I am glad, I'm glad
I'm so tired of moanin', tired of groanin'
Tired of moanin' for you
I'm so glad, I am glad
I am glad, I'm glad
I don't know what to do
Don't know what to do, I don't know what to do
I'm so tired, indeed I am tired
I am tired
And I'm so glad, I am glad
I am glad, I'm glad
I don't know what to do
Don't know what to do, I don't know what to do
I'm tired of weepin', tired of moanin'
Tired of groanin' for you
And I'm so glad, I am glad
I am glad, I'm glad
I'm so tired and I am tired
I am tired, I'm tired
I'm tired of weepin', tired of moanin'
Tired of groanin' for you
I'm so glad, I am glad
I am glad, I'm glad
I don't know what to do, don't know what to do
Don't know what to do

@GrandMerc89

I like Cream but this is even better.

@jackbaxter-williams8059

this music is the origin of rock and roll. beatles to rammstien to paul simon...

@robotypist

And I thought CREAM wrote this!

@lynettekomidar

If it wasn't for Cream, we may have never heard of some of these old greats

I thought it was Scot Richard Case from Detroit that first performed it LOL

@me_se

I think Entrance wrote this song, later a think the Cream wrote this song, and now im seeing this....

@bassreeves2410

@@lynettekomidar i have never heard of cream ,yet i'm here.

@grapesoftime

Lol rookie mistake; Cream's like Zep, what did they write really?

@ericclaptonhistorybook8510

Without the Cream we may never heard this song...

@johnrossini3594

cream and deep purple both did great versions of this song

@timgibson3080

Heard he did this on a 12-string...Awesome!

@comanchio1976

It sounds like he's playing with 12 fingers as well. It's incredible

@writerrad

no he was a phenomenal guitarist and pianist, he did this with the House guitar they had in the Paramount studio in Wisconsin in 1931 as the guiar he brought himself wasnt that good.

@aaron4wilkins

I don't think that's accurate

@SlimDavenport

It was a 12 string guitar but set up as a 6 string if I remember correctly.

@fuzzface8252

@@SlimDavenport Correct. It was a 12 string Stella, but strung as a normal 6 string.

@curiousnomad

I wonder how Clapton knew about this in the first place.

@dennymcfastlane8530

EZ, Eric studied da blues, and then proceeded to rip them off like any other and most English Musicians.

@anthonygerace332

@@dennymcfastlane8530 Say what you will about Eric Clapton, but unlike some other British guitar heroes of that generation (cough cough ... Jimmy Page) he at least had the decency to credit the black blues musicians for their songs, so that they, or their descendents got some royalty money. Common decency, but many other white musicians in that era did not do that. When Cream recorded "I'm So Glad" on "Fresh Cream" in 1966, Skip James got about $10,000 in royalties -- a significant chunk of money in those days -- at a time when Skip James was largely forgotten and in poor health. To me, Clapton was of course a white guy who made money from the music of older black guys, but at least he had the decency to give credit (and royalty money) where credit is due. The original by Skip James is great song, but the live jams by Cream in their cover of this song are also great. See also the original and Cream covers of "Spoonful" by Willie Dixon. Both are great, in my personal opinion.

@bassreeves2410

british sailors were the ones who brought blues records to england.

@giacomocapodellago3246

@@bassreeves2410 I've always wondered about this and have pieced together a story not exclusive of yours. I was in the USAF in Germany in the late 60s and stationed at the same base as Johnny Cash was. I can relate to his quote, "I was in the air force for 20 years from 1950-1954." He learned his licks and played at the base clubs and in town. There were a lot of Americans of African descent in the military. Most from the south, of course, there were many who fought the boredom by singing and playing the music they grew up with, the blues.

@markpetersen2469

They listen to all the old stuff. That’s how music evolves because the old music is part of the new(influence)

@yairjorgesmithbowel7818

i like traffic sound version

@rishardlampese8947

You've got to wonder why the Brits knew American blues better than Americans. This songs been around since 1931 and who the hell knew it before Cream?

@don66776

I think the answer to your question is self evident in the cries for recognition and justice going on right now.  The "Brits" didn't suffer from the same prejudices.

@rishardlampese8947

@@don66776 No I don't believe that is correct. America has an truly amazing history of music, a history created over a relatively short period of time. I think it's more a case of you can't see the forest for the trees sort of thing. British music fans by contrast have a more objective view of American music than Americans because of this. Sad that you had to take this opportunity to bash America by bringing race into the equation thereby perpetuating that narrative.

@don66776

@@rishardlampese8947 Sorry, which part isn't correct? I agree that 'America' has a great history of music in many genres but ask yourself why (well actually you did, above) the black 'Mississippi' blues was never recognised as good or important until the 1960s when the UK rock bands uncovered that treasure trove of music. They waded into those treasures with open minds and brought the great traditional blues into the mainstream. If you've watched Aretha Franklin's 'Amazing Grace' from her gospel concert in LA in 1972, out of the 20 or so white people in the audience there you'll see Mick Jagger & Charlie Watts. Happy, in 1972, to sit in a black Baptist Church...prejudice free.

@rishardlampese8947

@@don66776 Your view of prejudice in America is a myopic one disregarding all other factors that would help to explain the disparity of race integration, one of them being simple demographics. Again I say it's not about race but about accessibility. Blues in general wasn't reaching the radio nationally for many reasons while jazz on the other hand was. People like Duke Ellington and so many other black artists achieved huge success and widespread recognition among people with lighter pigment. You're basically hoping on the bandwagon with a self-righteous cause by cherry-picking isolated facts and occurrence without any concern for the true overall historical picture and by doing so, you do an injustice and disservice to the social progress that's been made since the Democratic Jim Crow laws were finally overturned in 1965. BTW I had black friends in 1972 and would've been happy to sit in a Baptist church. Also my original post was a question as to HOW British musicians discovered the music that was so obscure to most white Americans. You speak as if Americans knew about the music but deliberately ignored it out of prejudice, which is ridiculous.

@don66776

@Rishard Lampese. My goal wasn’t to explain the disparity of race integration (good grief..) it was to point out “why” not how “the Brits knew American blues better than Americans”. And I guess you actually meant white Americans because black Americans knew it just fine, thank you. If you want to ask “how” they knew it better, well probably for the same reason I went to Muddy Waters and Sonny Terry/Brownie McGee concerts in the early 70s.... because they were there and I loved the music. Period. Thankfully I lived in a country where attending such concerts in those times was/is common place. And yes, I am saying that black blues music was ignored out of prejudice by the vast majority of (white) Americans. That’s not even a disputable fact.

@slavoichlatherbearmt5828

Smack down fi di thumbs down. Who dares??

@michaelmaddox

I wonder what the hell these lyrics mean?

@thequietcity

alot of data has been consumed and vomitted.

@thequietcity

"" LW

@thequietcity

samuel jackson new play book depth lay ook

@thequietcity

saving me trouble - thank you elgoog on i took a pill in stomach acid for the smoke.

@thequietcity

"write your book"

@thequietcity

your not mine. time tells nothing.