"
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 late 1960s by the British rock group
Cream.