But perhaps the song that most encapsualated what Cream was about came from their first album after all:

Spoonful

It is a song with an impeccable blues pedigree

It was a song written by Willie Dixon; an Afro-American blues artist

It was loosley based on two other songs: A Spoonful Blues recorded in 1929 by Charlie Patton, father of the Delta blues, and All I Want is a Spoonful by Papa Charlie Jackson in 1925

If you have a spare 11 minutes or so, this clip is worth a look; to see the synthesis of steamy delta blues and British psychadelic rock...