Spoonful
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| "Spoonful" | ||
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| Single by Howlin' Wolf | ||
| Released | 1960 | |
| Format | Record | |
| Recorded | June 1960 | |
| Genre | Chicago blues | |
| Length | 2:45 | |
| Label | Chess Records | |
| Writer(s) | Willie Dixon | |
| Producer(s) | Phil and Leonard Chess and/or Willie Dixon | |
| Howlin' Wolf singles chronology | ||
| Who's Been Talking / Tell Me | Howlin' For My Baby / Spoonful | Wang Dang Doodle / Back Door Man |
"Spoonful" is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and lyrically based on Charley Patton's "Spoonful Blues". [1]
It is commonly associated with Howlin' Wolf, Dixon's longtime collaborator, who first recorded the song in 1960 (as Chess single 1762),[2] and later included it in his 1962 "Rockin' Chair Album".
Cream was also a longtime champion of "Spoonful". The band first covered the song on its 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream. As a pioneering blues-rock jam band, Cream's concert improvisations on "Spoonful"" could reach past the fifteen-minute mark, with the Winterland-live version on 1968's Wheels of Fire clocking in at nearly seventeen minutes.
It has also been recorded by artists such as Etta James (At Last!), the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Canned Heat, the Allman Joys, Ten Years After and The Who.
[edit] References
- ^ Koda, Cub. "Song Review". All Music Guide, ©2006.
- ^ "Chess Records - Discography"
[edit] External links
- Live version performed by Cream at the Revolution Club, London, in November 1967 for French TV [1]
