When I was a young Lovin' Spoonful fan, I thought of them as a New York City band. What I came to understand years later was that they were, more significantly, a Greenwich Village band.
They drew on a group of influences largely unfamiliar to their peers like the Beach Boys and the Beatles. The folk and roots musicians popular in the Village of the early sixties were deeply important to them. The band's name came from a line in a Mississippi John Hurt song. And this song shows the strong musical influence of Howlin' Wolf, another g-dropper like themselves.
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