| "They're Red Hot" | |
|---|---|
 Original 78 record label | |
| Single by Robert Johnson | |
| Released | July 1937 |
| Recorded | November 27, 1936 |
| Studio | Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Genre | Blues, hokum |
| Length | 2:58 |
| Label | Vocalion |
| Songwriter(s) | Robert Johnson |
| Producer(s) | Don Law |
"They're Red Hot" is a song written and performed by Delta blues musician Robert Johnson.[1] The song was recorded on November 27, 1936, in an improvised studio in Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. Vocalion Records issued it on a 78 rpm record, with "Come On in My Kitchen" as the second side, in 1937.[1]
Music historian Ted Gioia describes "They're Red Hot" as:
[one] of his best dance numbers ... evoking the pitches of street vendors, [a] look backward to the world of medicine shows and itinerant merchants ... This is the most lighthearted interlude in all of Johnson's oeuvre, opening up a different perspective on this supposedly devil-haunted soul.[2]
- ^ a b LaVere, Stephen (1990). The Complete Recordings (Box set booklet). Robert Johnson. New York City: Columbia Records. p. 46. OCLC 24547399. C2K 46222.
- ^ Gioia, Ted (2008). Delta Blues (Norton Paperback 2009 ed.). New York City: W. W. Norton. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-393-33750-1.