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"Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Called "a stark and haunting work",〔 〕 it is one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs. Etta James had a pop and R&B record chart hit with "Spoonful" in 1961 and it was popularized in the later 1960s by the British rock group Cream. ==Background and lyrics== Dixon's "Spoonful" is loosely based on "A Spoonful Blues", a song recorded in 1929 by Charley Patton (Paramount 12869),〔Segrest 2004, p. 173.〕 which is related to "All I Want Is A Spoonful" by Papa Charlie Jackson (1925) and "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan (1927). The lyrics relate men's sometimes violent search to satisfy their cravings, with "a spoonful" used mostly as a metaphor for pleasures, which have been interpreted as sex, love, or drugs.〔LaRose 2006, pp. 923–924.〕 :It could be a spoonful of coffee, it could be a spoonful of tea :But one little spoon of your precious love, is good enough for me :Men lies about that spoonful, some of them dies about that spoonful :Some of them cries about that spoonful, but everybody fight about that spoonful 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spoonful」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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