Skip James - Im So Glad

[TheCarlSchmidt]

raw!

[willowNmeadow3392]

he seems to add a lot of soul into his music but this is crappy music sounding staticky

:P

[NoRosesForMe]

@willowNmeadow3392 It is SUPPOSED to sound " staticky " because it is from an old 78 rpm record. You dont know what that is but its okay. At least you stopped by to try ,,,TRY,,,to understand real LIFE and real blues. Thank you,,,,,but read descriptions and educate yourself before judging from now on ,,,,okay? Hugs n peace "Jenny

[DLashbrooke]

he was joking, silly billy

[kevboslice112]

its a good thing we have youtube so that music like this will never be forgotten

[rhythmapprentice]

Umm...can we stop arguing over who or what made the blues into what it became? I'm here to hear great music. The unfortunate graffiti of your argumentative posts clouds my attention and makes it harder to sit back and enjoy the blues. No wonder so many folks opt out of letting others post on their videos!

[MrMrjorge13]

PUTOS ANUNCIOS DE MIERDA

[apduvall]

if it wasn't for robert johnson i wouldn't be here

[LoneTinaja]

Regarding the top comment by rug3r44 it's

funny to see a few replies by people saying

he/she is stupid because Beck & Led Zeppelin

were born after James. The people making

those replies wouldn't know sarcasm if it

bit them on the ass

[futuredays92]

this song is manic depressive

[MrEduyo]

Ufffffffff, just incredible...

[britishbikes12]

They say the recording men got him to slow down for this cut.

[BluesguyMcfly]

So this is where Cream came up with :Im so Glad!" Yay discovery! :D

[julian1775]

Love this delta blues sound. Skip James, Robert Johnson. Thanks for uploading this one. I would love to have the 78 rpm, but virtually impossible to find it here in Buenos Aires.

[WyldeWannabe]

I'm SO Glad, I'm so Glad, I'm Glad I'm Glad I'm Glad...

I like this version but the Cream version is better for playing live... Without Clapton, nobody would know this part of American History (The Delta and Chicago (electrified) Blues) I'm pretty sure 75% of new bands don't know one thing about it, "Why you listening to that music?" "Why?" "Why?, because that music is...old" Sheesh, people who only listen to the latest music make me sick, and I'm only 27! May the blues live on...

[1blastman]

No, there's just many paths to the essence of the blues. My path to Skip James was through Cream. Others had different, equally valid and personal paths to get there.

[HOMEnHIGH]

black kids need to pick up a guitar and be the next when this comes around again...hippidy hop is dead...

[1blastman]

If Cream hadn't covered this on Fresh Cream, I wouldn't be here listening and marveling at Skip James' incredible playing. Dis Clapton all you want, but he and many other English blues men [Mayhall, Savoy Brown, Page, Yardbirds, Zep, Alexis Korner, and so many more] brought American blues back to American audiences.

I'm very grateful for that.

[TheGibbySG]

@1blastman I was about to post the same thing haha

[Diomedes22]

@1blastman so things only have value if so called mainstream white audiences pay attention?

[MetalAndRockGuru]

@Diomedes22 He never said it didn't have value if mainstream audience doesn't pay attention. Obviously You have your blinkers on.

[patobrun]

@1blastman naw you got it all wrong. it wasnt englishmen who did that, the music was always here in america and we always heard it. you can thank a group of students from all over the americas mainly cali who went out and found these beautiful men and made the original field recordings, thank them, not some dipshit wanker with frizzed out hair and cocaine on his cock. thank YOU.

[NoRosesForMe]

@patobrun hahahha you are so right!! Right fkn ON!! ** hug** thank you for your knowledge and comments and settin it straight. PEACE & love & blessings to ya. And thank you so much for listening. I appreciate everybody's (positive) comments. xx ~"Jenny"

[1blastman]

@patobrun You're right. Alan Lomax and others did a remarkable job of recording the blues for the Library of Congress. I first heard Leadbelly on those. Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Koerner, Ray and Glover and many others from the early 60's brought the blues back to us back then with the Folk movement. But the early 60's British bluesmen, also helped to bring the blues to a larger audience.

But the blues originals were never fully compensated for their contributions to music - shame.

[patobrun]

@1blastman geeeezy petes skedaddle fuck you dont get it, do you? of COURSE they were compensated because these songs CHOSE to come thru THEM, the EXPRESSION is the PAYMENT... the ability to be a storyteller and to bounce those vibrations OUT, to give VOICE to what so many others were feeling, and WOULD be feeling, and have been feeling forever. THE SONGS DONT NEED HELP. dont worry about it.

[scyscraperman]

this is really amazing. thanks for uploading this alot!

[shishyupal]

When I listen to Hendrix, I hear a good dose of Skip James.

[WhiteEuropeanSatan]

Eric Clapton eat your heart out!

[retardedjoe12]

This is the best version i have heard him do ,truly mind blowing

[andy131481]

Finger picking, "Delta" blues style,(?) look what Robert Johnson did with his fingers.You can't accurately label blues or Piedmont or Mississippi Hill Country by finger picking or not.Look what Fred McDowell did with a slide while finger picking.But I'm not a blues scientist or anything...just a poor little white boy from Mississippi.

[stigletto]

JEZUS! Insanely great guitar playing!!!!

[felunt]

wow!!!

[SinaChannel]

He sounds ANYTHING but glad - what a tune though!

[johnjtheoriginal]

is this delta blues? it has a lot of fingerpicking... anyway, it's a masterpiece, thank you so much!

[NoRosesForMe]

@johnjtheoriginal Yes he was indeed a Delta Blues man. He had his special style of playing. That sound. Seems to roll all over the frets huh? And you are so welcome. Im glad you enjoyed this. Bless ya.

[virtuosityclone]

@NoRosesForMe = Absolutely incredible guitar playing....I'm embarrassed by how far short I come to being able to play this prodigiously.

[NoRosesForMe]

@virtuosityclone Hey ..listen ......Ive been playin guitar for years....cant even remember how long! haha im serious...but I cant play this either. I can play blues. No sweat. But....this? ....Nooooo haha! Its all gravy. You know youre great and dont ever stop okay? I havent. I never will. Even if Im just bored and alone and makin up stuff off the top of my head...Im still playin. Which is usually some of the best times huh? xx *wink* THANK YOU for diggin it. From my heart~"Jenny"

[marino4691]

@johnjtheoriginal fingerpicking is best!

[sunrajah]

@johnjtheoriginal .......... this is wonderful to hear --- after all these years I found the root of this Cream song that was such a joy to hear for a white boy not wandering the Delta, or delta "blacks only" record stores

[rediryou]

@johnjtheoriginal Skip was an original, learned Delta Blues but really had more of a Piedmont style.

[horlacsd]

@johnjtheoriginal Bentonia style of Blues.

[olllHashedFetish]

Woah. Google this song and listen to the remastered version from ilike(myspace music?) Where did this come from? The album samples don't match up with that first result. Can anyone track that remastered mp3 down?

[making84]

that' really really hard to play

[ertansaygi]

I like delta blues...These guys are themselves are "walking blues"

(And i listened Cream version of the song and can say that they ruined it)

[TheDsmyth]

gives me goosebumps too

[RunningFromthe80s]

Does anyone know the chords for this? That´d be awesome. Thanks blues-ppl!

[RunningFromthe80s]

@RunningFromthe80s basically it is E - A - B?

[olderbluesfan]

Thankx for posting this!!!! None compare toSKIP JAMES!!

[BigChiefFan]

Eddie VH, guess what ? You weren't just influenced by Cream.

[theskinningwire]

wax recordings are the fucking BEST!

[TimBirkenholz]

peepz are really dumb for not understanding rug3r44's comment

[dinkeedee]

yes, this stuff is gold. gives me goosbumps

[NastyNatey]

I love this so much..timeless.

[MattTheSexyBeast]

This is such a great song. It's definitely a huge influence on me.

Oh, and I'm guessing not many picked up on rug3r44's sarcasm. I found it to be pretty funny.

[davidkzoo]

I'm glad that we're all glad that we're glad that we like this. 5 *'s!

[JosephMalicke]

It's funny to know that Skip publicly damned the Cream's version to hell.

[SqueezeMyLemonBabe]

@JosephMalicke lol. After hearing this it kinda seems justified.

[MontagTheMagician]

Yes, thanks for not posting the digitally remastered version or whatever you call it. That muddy echo-y crap sounds awful.

[blablitoblabla]

we all love blues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dig4tunes]

Beck looks pretty good for his age, which must be about 100 in order for dear Skip to have copied it from him. Principle: Perform research before commenting.

[skullamus]

@dig4tunes Don't feed the trolls dude.

[jamo387]

@dig4tunes I think he was joking here. read twice, comment once...

[rug3r44]

He stole this from Beck. Shameful, almost as bad as all those songs taken from Led Zep without credit.

[pope1870]

haha

[NicotinMan]

Hahahaha

[mergs8690]

... are you kidding?

[2711913]

@rug3r44 What color is the sky on your planet?

[MontagTheMagician]

@rug3r44 Wow, your stupidity is astronomical. This guy died before Beck was born and this was recorded in the 1930s.

[LoneTinaja]

@MontagTheMagician What @rug3r44 was writing

is called "sarcasm". By any chance do you know

what Montag means?

[MontagTheMagician]

@LoneTinaja Yes, it means Monday in German. HG Lewis says it in the commentary for Wizard Of Gore.

[davidkzoo]

@rug3r44 lol yes. Beck definitely time warped to the 30's and stole this.

[kurlyfries2]

@rug3r44 ur an idiot....

[OctoBox]

@rug3r44 -- hahahaha "Word"

[uynosquedamostrabado]

@rug3r44 Why the fuck does this idiot have 19 thumbs up?

[nickersthekid]

@uynosquedamostrabado I think he was joking.

[bluepez57]

@rug3r44 LOL u r a funny man

[popsid451]

@rug3r44 Dude seriously really think about that shit.

[law678]

@rug3r44 Dude What? This is an original

[davetaylorbluespiano]

@rug3r44 -ROFL

[bluesplaylist]

can someone please post the life perfomance of skip playin im so glad. sweetest version ive ever seen

[PreWarMusic]

Stephen Calt's book "I'd Rather be the Devil" is worth having a read of if your interested in learning more about the life of Skip James, though don't by any means consider it to be comprised of facts.

[krukkegaard]

sarò antico, vecchio, anacronista o quello che cazzo vi pare ma per me il blues è e rimane il genere definitivo...la musica più sincera che un uomo può suonare.grazie skip.

[stampy4x4]

nrobnas43 Skip was born in 1902 and this was from the early part of his life before he "re-emerged" in the 60's.

[nrobnas43]

I don't get it. There are some videos with Skip James playing in 1967. And then you got a recording going back to 1931-hard time killing floor blues. So, is the song from 1931 or is there someone else going by Skip James, or what? Can you explain, please. Because I want to know for sure.

[Afrobeat100]

The original recording was made in 1931. Somehow completely abandoned playing shortly after that and disappeared. He was rediscovered in 1965 or so. It's all in Scorsese's doc on the blues. It's scary beause in the film it's told he didnt play until the rediscovery.

[preacain]

wow this is great to find stuff like this and even hear the scratches on the record cream were good too but i love this !!! skip gets the credit man!!! *****

[NoRosesForMe]

Thank you Precain. Glad you like this. Always better to hear the originals....although I do love Cream .

[pathoplastic]

I'd sell my soul to the devil to be able to play like that ;)

really.

thank you for posting

[NoRosesForMe]

haha! me too! i play but....this stuff is impossible for me.

And youre so welcome! Thank YOU! =))) GLD ya enjoyed it hehe

[allaboutdatGDA]

@NoRosesForMe you are both pretty damn stupid. you need to keep your own soul to make this music. devil ain't got shit.

[johnnyboybledsoe12]

dont do it just practice constantly

[shannonandsheila1]

@pathoplastic alot have

[JoswaR7]

@pathoplastic Robert Johnson did. Ironiclly Skip tried to tour with him but Robert ditched him. That's alright "he's glad" lol

[twalling]

@JoswaR7 actually, it was TOMMY Johnson who allegedly sold his soul to the devil. Completely unrelated, but he did have the same last name.

[JoswaR7]

@twalling So did Robert Johnson read the wiki!

[Federesti]

hello my blues friends, i am Federico, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who has stayed in the south???, mississippi for example, people continues playing delta blues there???, or this is a music in "extinction", like says some people here, in Bs As, thanks for all.

[MrHansjensen]

People do still play blues there, like Yazoo city, where there is still a tradition of standing on the street corner playing blues. But this music is part of history, it is can't be added too, it's the story of the hardship of a life pickin' cotton, living as a minority, poverty. Now people just copy the old sound

[blackityblackboy]

hey i live in Tennessee which is above mississippi and i hear some people playin the blues in the bars in Nashville but i wish there was a lot more. Blues still lives on over here.

[louiseduvee]

Delta Blues is what I listen to now. America's put blues in white men pretty fast.

[edli55]

wow, Cream picked this up in late 60ths, I heard later versions of the tune by Skip but this is the best, thnx for posting

[alargedog]

great post roroses wat a voice #####

[NoRosesForMe]

Thank you Dog! Yea he was one of the best! =D

[ANE32]

OMG! Thank you so much for this! Skip James,Magic Sam and Leadbelly are my favourite Blues artists!

[NoRosesForMe]

=0 omg really? Wow! Youre so welcome! Thank you for that. Blues means the world to me. You made my night. Thank you!

[eightiesmike73]

I am GLAD.. I am GLAD so GLAD..GLAD about it..

SKIP JAMES...Rest in peace!

[NoRosesForMe]

Amen. Hehe! Thanks so much.

[nandel1959]

WOW! Love those "real" old stuff! Didn´t know that song - but it´s awesome!

Thanks for posting, my dear! Great video!

[NoRosesForMe]

Youre very welcome Sven! And thank YOU. I love this old stuff too. My favorite kind of blues.