from willie dixon's mouth
"The idea of Spoonful was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot. If a doctor gives you less than a spoonful of some kind of medicne that can kill you, he can give you less that a spoonful of another one that will make you well.
But after you write these songs, people who have ban minds, their minds will tell them what they want to believe. If it's blues, and they've been trying to degrade the blues all the time, I don't care what title you come up with, they'll say it's a bad title. I remeber a time years ago that if I said sex, my mama would beat the hell out of me, People who think Spoonful was about heroin are mostly people with heroin ideas."
i think he is just writing that you dont need everything, you just need enough. and you can put whatever meaning into it that you want.
from willie dixon's mouth "The idea of Spoonful was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot. If a doctor gives you less than a spoonful of some kind of medicne that can kill you, he can give you less that a spoonful of another one that will make you well.
But after you write these songs, people who have ban minds, their minds will tell them what they want to believe. If it's blues, and they've been trying to degrade the blues all the time, I don't care what title you come up with, they'll say it's a bad title. I remeber a time years ago that if I said sex, my mama would beat the hell out of me, People who think Spoonful was about heroin are mostly people with heroin ideas."
i think he is just writing that you dont need everything, you just need enough. and you can put whatever meaning into it that you want.