They're Red Hot

"They're Red Hot"
"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
Genre	Blues, hokum
Length	2:58
Label	Vocalion, ARC
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 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]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^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.

[LaVere-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b LaVere, Stephen (1990). The Complete Recordings (Box set booklet). Robert Johnson. New York City: Columbia Records. p. 46. OCLC 24547399. C2K 46222.

[2] Gioia, Ted (2008). Delta Blues (Norton Paperback 2009 ed.). New York City: W. W. Norton. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-393-33750-1.

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hide v t Robert Johnson
Albums	King of the Delta Blues Singers King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II The Complete Recordings
Original 78 rpms (chronological)	"Terraplane Blues" / "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" "32-20 Blues" / "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" / "Dead Shrimp Blues" "Cross Road Blues" / "Ramblin' on My Mind" "Come On in My Kitchen" / "They're Red Hot" "Sweet Home Chicago" / "Walkin' Blues" "Hellhound on My Trail" / "From Four Until Late" "Milkcow's Calf Blues" "Stones in My Passway" "Stop Breaking Down" "Me and the Devil Blues" "Love in Vain"
Later releases	"If I Had Possession over Judgment Day" "When You Got a Good Friend" "Travelling Riverside Blues"
Related	Robert Johnson recordings (discography, sessionography) The Search for Robert Johnson Me and the Devil Blues (manga) Me and Mr. Johnson/Sessions for Robert J The Robert Johnson Songbook Johnson's guitars Crossroads (1986 film)