Foxy Lady

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

The song is best known for its repeated guitar riff using the thumb on the lower string in F# and solo, and is one of Hendrix's earliest uses of feedback in a studio recording. The song is also known for its use of the Hendrix chord.

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

Kathy Etchingham, Jimi's girlfriend at the time, claimed to be one of many inspirations for "Foxy Lady".

Covers

• Recordings
• 1979 • The Cure • Three Imaginary Boys
• 1989 • Roger Taylor's The Cross • Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
• 2007 • ZZ Top • Live From Texas DVD (bonus track)
• Life performances
• Red Hot Chili Peppers and ZZ Top sometimes cover this song live
• Paul McCartney occasionally plays this song after playing "Let Me Roll It"
• Guitarist Buckethead is known to play the song live as well as the song "Purple Haze"
• Other
• Is played frequently on G3 tours during the G3 jam

Popular references

• This song appears on the soundtrack for Gran Turismo 2.
• Dana Carvey is 'captivated' in a scene from the movie Wayne's World as Foxey Lady plays in the background.
• This song is played in an episode of Boston Legal.
• Part of this song played in the Family Guy episode "Brian Sings and Swings". A disgruntled neighboring family of a selfish Thomas Edison begs him to share his newly invented electricity as they are cold, but he merely insults their lack of genius and storms back into his well-lit house, blaring "Foxey Lady" on the stereo.
• In the Simpson's episode Bart the Daredevil, Otto the Bus Driver hums the song into the radio on the drive to school after the stereo breaks.

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