extensive subsequent covers, include:
"29 Ways" – Marc Cohn, Willie Dixon, The Blues Band
"300 Pounds Of Joy" – Howlin' Wolf, Tom Jones & Jools Holland
"After Five Long Years" – Willie Dixon
"As Long as I Have You" – Led Zeppelin
"Back Door Man"[9] – Howlin' Wolf, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir
"Big Boss Man" – Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley, The Animals, The Grateful Dead
"Bring It on Home" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Dread Zeppelin, Johnny Thunders
"Built for Comfort" – Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO
"Crazy For My Baby" – Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Willie Dixon
"Crazy Love" – Buddy Guy
"Crazy Mixed Up World" – Little Walter
"Close to You" – Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors
"Dead Presidents" – Little Walter, The J. Geils Band
"Diddy Wah Diddy" – Bo Diddley, Captain Beefheart, The Blues Band
"Do Me Right" – Lowell Fulson
"Do the Do" – Howlin' Wolf
"Don't Go No Farther" – Muddy Waters
"Don't Tell Me Nothin´" – Willie Dixon – used in the movie The Color of Money
"Down in the Bottom" – Howlin' Wolf, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
"Earthquake and Hurricane" – Willie Dixon
"Eternity" – Grateful Dead
"Everybody Needs Something" – Little Walter
"Everything But You" – Jimmy Witherspoon
"Everything's Got a Time" – Willie Dixon
"Evil" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Monster Magnet, Derek and the Dominos, Gary Moore, Cactus, The Faces, Steve Miller, Koko Taylor
"Flamin' Mamie" – Willie Dixon
"Help Me" – Sonny Boy Williamson II
"Gone Daddy Gone" - the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano incorporated elements of "I Just Want To Make Love To You" into his track; the former was later covered by Gnarls Barkley
"Grave Digger Blues" – Willie Dixon
"Groanin' the Blues" – Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton
"Hidden Charms" – Howlin' Wolf, Link Wray
"Hoochie Coochie Man"[6] – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Shadows of Knight, Eric Burdon, The Nashville Teens, Dion, The Allman Brothers Band, Alexis Korner, Steppenwolf, Chuck Berry, Motörhead, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey, Manfred Mann
"Howlin' For My Baby" – Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood
"I Ain't Superstitious" – Howlin' Wolf, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, Megadeth, The Jeff Beck Group, Chris Spedding
"I Can't Quit You Baby" – Little Milton, Otis Rush, Willie Dixon, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore, Dread Zeppelin, Nine Below Zero
"I Can't Understand" – Los Lobos (co-written with Cesar Rojas)
"I Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" – Willie Dixon
"If the Sea Was Whiskey" – Chris Thile
"I Got What It Takes" – Koko Taylor
"I Just Want To Make Love To You"[6] – Muddy Waters, The Animals, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Shadows of Knight, Mungo Jerry, Grateful Dead, Foghat, The Rolling Stones, Etta James, Van Morrison, Paul Rodgers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, April Wine, Robben Ford, Meat Puppets, Cold Blood
"I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love" – Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson
"I'm Ready"[6] – Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Long John Baldry, Eric Burdon, George Thorogood, Albert King
"Insane Asylum" – Koko Taylor, Kathy McDonald and Sly Stone, Diamanda Galás, Asylum Street Spankers, The Detroit Cobras, Oxbow feat. Marianne Faithful
"I Don't Play" – Robben Ford
"I Got My Brand on You" – Muddy Waters
"It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" – Styx
"I Want To Be Loved" – Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones
"Let Me Love You Baby" – Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, B. B. King
"Little Baby" – Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones
"Little Red Rooster"[6] – Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Luther Allison, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Mama Thornton, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Love, Life & Money" – Johnny Winter
"Mellow Down Easy" – Little Walter & His Jukes, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Black Crowes, Carey Bell, ZZ Top, Jimmy Reed, Holly Golightly
"Million Dollar Baby" – Dizzy Gillespie
"My Babe"[6] – Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Spencer Davis Group, John P. Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fire and Drum Band
"My Baby's Sweeter" – Little Walter, Fleetwood Mac
"My Captain" – Muddy Waters
"My John the Conqueror Root" – Muddy Waters
"Nervous" – Willie Dixon
"Oh Baby" – Little Walter
"One More Chance With You" – Little Walter
"Pain In My Heart" – Willie Dixon, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Grateful Dead
"Pie in the Sky" – Willie Dixon
"Pretty Thing" – Bo Diddley, Pretty Things, Canned Heat
"Seventh Son" – Willie Mabon, Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Johnny Rivers, Sting, Climax Blues Band, Long John Baldry
"Same Thing" – The Band
"Sin And City" – Buddy Guy
"Shake For Me" – Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Sit and Cry (The Blues)" – Buddy Guy (co-written with Buddy Guy)
"Spoonful"[6] – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Dion, Paul Butterfield, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, The Who, Etta James Salty Dog
"Study War No More" – Willie Dixon
"The Same Thing" – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers Band, Sue Foley, Marc Ford, Grateful Dead
"The Seventh Son" – Willie Dixon
"Study No More" – Willie Dixon
"Third Degree" – Eddie Boyd, Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton, Leslie West
"Tollin' Bells" – Lowell Fulson, Savoy Brown Blues Band, Robert Cray
"Too Late" – Little Milton, Little Walter
"Too Many Cooks" – Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Mick Jagger
"Violent Love" – Otis Rush, The Big Three, Oingo Boingo, Dr. Feelgood
"Walkin' The Blues" – Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Kay
"Wang Dang Doodle"[6] – Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, Box Tops, PJ Harvey, Rufus Thomas, The Pointer Sisters, The Blues Band, Widespread Panic
"Weak Brain, Narrow Mind" – Willie Dixon, Widespread Panic
"When My Left Eye Jumps" – Buddy Guy
"When The Lights Go Out" – Jimmy Witherspoon, Kim Wilson
"Who" – Little Walter
"Wigglin' Worm" – Willie Dixon
"You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At Its Cover" – Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Cactus, The Yardbirds, Beat Farmers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tim Hardin, The Merseybeats, Elliott Murphy, Long John Baldry, The Monkees, Eric Clapton, Roy Buchanan.
"You Don't Love Me" – Booker T. & the M.G.s, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills
"You Know My Love" – Otis Rush, Gary Moore
"You'll Be Mine" – Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. Feelgood
"You Need Love" – Muddy Waters, Mick Clark Band
"Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" was appropriated, without credit, from Dixon's "You Need Love". Although the main guitar riff was composed by Jimmy Page himself, Robert Plant based the lyrics on Dixon's song. Dixon and his music publisher received credit and royalties, after a 1985 lawsuit was settled out of court.
"You Need Loving" recorded by The Small Faces in 1965, is another uncredited loose version of the song
"You Shook Me"[9] – Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin
"Young Fashioned Ways" – Muddy Waters
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You may also see Willie Dixon & The Allstars and Chicago Blues Allstars on Last.fm.
Spoonful
Willie Dixon Lyrics
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Could be a spoonful of gold
Just a little spoon of your precious love
Satisfy my soul
Men lies about little
Some of them cries about little
Some of them dies about littles
That spoon, that spoon, that sp-
It could be a spoonful of coffee
Could be a spoonful of tea
But a little spoon of your precious love
Good enough for me
Men lies about that
Some of them dies about that
Some of them cries about that
But everything fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that-
Ooh-ooh, fight about spoonfuls
Ooh-ooh, fight about a spoonful
It could be a spoonful of water
Save you from the desert sand
But one spoon of lead from my forty-five
Save you from another man
Men lies about that
Some of them cries about that
Some of them dies about that
Everybody fightin' about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that-
The song Spoonful by Willie Dixon is a classic blues song about the power of love and desire. The repeated refrain “just a little spoon of your precious love, satisfy my soul” emphasizes the influence that a small amount of affection can have on a person. The opening lines of the song, “It could be a spoonful of diamond/Could be a spoonful of gold” suggest that the object of the singer’s desire is immensely valuable and precious. The metaphor of the spoonful is used throughout the song as a symbol of the small amount of love and affection that is needed to satisfy the singer’s soul.
The lyrics also mention how people lie, cry, and even die about the “little” things in life, emphasizing the idea that something as small as a spoonful of love can have a big impact. The third verse of the song takes on a more violent tone, with the idea that a spoonful of lead from a gun can save someone from another man. This suggests that love can be a powerful force, but so can violence and aggression.
Throughout the song, the repetition of the refrain and the use of the metaphor of the spoonful create a sense of urgency and desire. The song is a classic example of blues music, with its emphasis on the power of desire and emotion.
Line by Line Meaning
It could be a spoonful of diamond
A very small but valuable amount of something
Could be a spoonful of gold
A very small but valuable amount of something
Just a little spoon of your precious love
A small amount of your valuable love
Satisfy my soul
Make me happy and content
Men lies about little
Men tell lies about small things
Some of them cries about little
Some men cry about small things
Some of them dies about littles
Some men die for small things
Everything fight about a spoonful
Everyone fights over something small
It could be a spoonful of coffee
A very small but satisfying amount of coffee
Could be a spoonful of tea
A very small but satisfying amount of tea
But a little spoon of your precious love
A small but valuable amount of your love
Good enough for me
Satisfactory for me
Men lies about that
Men tell lies about that small thing
Some of them dies about that
Some men die for that small thing
Some of them cries about that
Some men cry about that small thing
But everything fight about a spoonful
Everything is fought over a small thing
Ooh-ooh, fight about spoonfuls
People fight over small things
Ooh-ooh, fight about a spoonful
People fight over a small thing
It could be a spoonful of water
A very small but lifesaving amount of water
Save you from the desert sand
Prevent you from dying from dehydration in the desert
But one spoon of lead from my forty-five
One bullet from my gun
Save you from another man
Protect you from someone else
Men lies about that
Men tell lies about that small thing
Some of them cries about that
Some men cry about that small thing
Some of them dies about that
Some men die for that small thing
Everybody fightin' about a spoonful
Everyone is fighting over a small thing
That spoon, that spoon, that-
That small thing, that small thing, that-
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Willie Dixon
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@russellclaggett
Im in my 30s born in 88, my only wish in life is the younger generation discovers Chicago blues and pass' it on.... this is..... as good as it gets. Thank you Willie for pioneering what we all know! Weither its rock or soul.... can we gather to music the universal language!???
@lucyandthecalm
i was born in 92 am i young enough , let me infect thos 2000's babys
@imanihekima1659
The bassline, groove and everything else is just right. The drummer's on it.
@culinarius3901
The godfather of the blues! His songs are blues and rock history! The most famous musicians of the 20th century covered his songs. The list of bands that have covered his songs is long and significant. Dixon deserves greater credit for his influence on music over the last century.
@reedbender1179
Amen ! Willie was simply prolific...true blues legend ! ✌
@marekhal
Just listening right now with Ten Years After from "Undead" (live at Klooks Kleek club `68.)
@LittleEagle7507
Willie Dixon the legend, one of the blues master who inspired a lot of famous musicians ... First black man who was producer, songwriter, singer, musician in music's history.
@tomolson6169
While I agree with the first part of your statement, I find myself wondering why his skin color matters?
@JB-hy1cl
@@tomolson6169 Because he was purportedly the first US black man to work in all of those categories simultaneously, as funkyhaiss claims. Can you understand the significance of his skin colour in relation to that historic precedent?
@tomolson6169
@@JB-hy1cl Nope. I cannot see. I cannot see the constant need by some to mention skin color. That is all.