The album saw the group take a completely different and controversial direction from the psychedelia featured on their previous effort, Future, towards a style rooted in blues.

Additionally, Johnson contributed the two compositions, "Pretty Girl" and "One More Time Blues", plus a cover version of the Waters-penned "Plain Spoken".

To that effect, A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues was the first and only Seeds album to not include a rendition of the guitar riff found in the group's hit song, "Pushin' Too Hard".

[3] Upon release, A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues failed to chart on the Billboard 200 and damaged the band's image, which marked a decline in their commercial success.

[4] In 2013, in order to flesh out more tracks, Big Beat Records' distribution of A Web of Sound included a mono mix of A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues.