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Spoonful




  Artist Howlin' Wolf
  Released 1960
  Format Record
  Recorded June 1960
  Genre Chicago Blues
  Length 2:45
  Label Chess Records
  Writer Willie Dixon
  Producer Phil and Leonard Chess and/or Willie Dixon
  Last Single Who's Been Talking / Tell Me
  This Single Howlin' For My Baby / Spoonful
  Next Single Wang Dang Doodle / Back Door Man



Single Information

  Name Spoonful, Part 1
  Cover Creamwheelsoffirejpeg
  Artist Cream
  From Album Wheels Of Fire
  B-side Spoonful, Part 2
  Released September 1968
  Recorded Winterland Ballroom <br> San Francisco
  Genre Blues-rock
  Length 16:48
  Label Polydor
  Writer Willie Dixon
  Producer Felix Pappalardi
  Last Single " Sunshine Of Your Love "<br>(1968)
  This Single "'''Spoonful'''"<br>(1968)
  Next Single " White Room "<br>(1969)


  Name Spoonful
  Cover Fresh creamjpg
  Artist Cream
  Album Fresh Cream
  Released December 9 , 1966
  Track No 6
  Recorded July - October 1966 at Rayrik Studios in London , Ryemuse Studios in London
  Genre Blues-rock
  Length 6:30
  Label Polydor
  Writer Willie Dixon
  Producer Robert Stigwood
  Prev " Sweet Wine "
  Prev No 5
  Next " Cat's Squirrel "
  Next No 7


"Spoonful" is a Blues Standard written by Willie Dixon and lyrically based on Charley Patton 's "Spoonful Blues". Koda, Cub. "Song Review" . All Music Guide, ©2006.

It is commonly associated with "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 , The Who and Johnny Diesel ('' Short Cool Ones '').


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  • Live version performed by Cream at the Revolution Club, London, in November 1967 for French TV {Link without Title}