Foxy Lady

"Foxy Lady" (or alternatively "Foxey Lady") is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from their 1967 album Are you Experienced. It can also be found on a number of Hendrix's greatest hits compilations, including Smash Hits (1968/1969) and Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (1997). Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at #152 in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

The song is well known for its guitar riff, which alternates between the bass F# (and its octave), which Hendrix played with his thumb on the second fret, and the ringing E–A dyad at the fifth fret. It is one of Hendrix's earliest uses of feedback in a studio recording. The song is also known for its use of the so-called "Hendrix chord", the dominant 7#9.

The US version of Are You Experienced (also released in Canada) listed the song with a spelling mistake as "Foxey Lady"^[1] and this is how it is still known among many North American fans and critics today.

The group had difficulties deciding how to end the song. Bass player Noel Redding claims that the last chord was his suggestion.^[2]

Hendrix commented on his own lyrics by saying that he did not approach women in such a straightforward manner as the lyrics might suggest ("You got to be all mine" etc.)^[3]

Covers

• Recordings
  • 1968 • Booker T. and the M.G.'s • Soul Limbo
  • 1979 • The Cure • Three Imaginary Boys
  • 1989 • Roger Taylor's The Cross • Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
  • 1991 • Blue Cheer • Dining With the Sharks
  • 1999 • ESP • Lost and Spaced
  • 2007 • ZZ Top • Live From Texas DVD (bonus track)
• Live performances
  • 1993 • Paul Rodgers • The Hendrix Set
  • 1998 • Popa Chubby • The Jimi Hendrix Music Festival
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers[1] and ZZ Top [2] sometimes cover this song live.
  • Paul McCartney occasionally plays this song after playing "Let Me Roll It"^{[citation needed]}
  • Guitarist Roy Buchanan occasionally played this song after playing "Hey Joe"
  • Guitarist Buckethead is known to play the song live as well as the song "Purple Haze"^{[citation needed]}
  • The song was covered by Mick Jagger with Jeff Beck live.
• Other
  • Is played frequently on G3 tours during the G3 jam^{[citation needed]}. It appeared on the G3: Live in Tokyo DVD, where it was played as the first song in the jam by Joe Satriani (who also provided vocals), Steve Vai, and John Petrucci, with special guest Mike Portnoy on drums.

References

1. ^ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hendrix.guide/lifetime.htm
2. ^ Liner notes of Are You Experienced album, 1992 CD issue
3. ^ Liner notes of Are You Experienced album, 1992 CD issue