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Willie Dixon, who wrote the song for Howlin' Wolf, stated unequivocally more than once that the song is not about drugs. It's about lovemaking.
“People who think ‘Spoonful’ was about heroin are mostly people with heroin ideas,” he wrote in his autobiography, I Am The Blues.
When Howlin' Wolf performed it on stage, he often simulated self love and/or rubbed his groin area with a large wooden spoon.
Willie Dixon, who wrote the song for Howlin' Wolf, stated unequivocally more than once that the song is not about drugs. It's about lovemaking.
“People who think ‘Spoonful’ was about heroin are mostly people with heroin ideas,” he wrote in his autobiography, I Am The Blues.
When Howlin' Wolf performed it on stage, he often simulated self love and/or rubbed his groin area with a large wooden spoon.