They're Red Hot
"They're Red Hot" is a song written and performed by Delta blues musician Robert Johnson. 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.
| "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 |
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.
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