Foxy Lady
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| Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience | ||
| Album | Are You Experienced | |
| Released | May 12, 1967 (UK) | |
| Genre | Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock | |
| Length | 3:22 | |
| Label | Track Records (UK) | |
| Writer | Jimi Hendrix | |
| Producer | Chas Chandler | |
| Are You Experienced track listing | ||
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| Single by The Jimi Hendrix Experience | |||||
| B-side | "Hey Joe" | ||||
| Released | August 1967 (USA only) | ||||
| Format | 7" 45rpm | ||||
| Length | 3:19 | ||||
| Label | Reprise Records | ||||
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"Foxy Lady" (or "Foxey Lady" as it is known in USA) 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 USA 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 USA fans and critics today. 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.
Kathy Etchingham, Jimi's girlfriend at the time, claimed to be one of many inspirations for "Foxy Lady".[citation needed]
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- The Cure covered the song on their 1979 album Three Imaginary Boys.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers and ZZ Top sometimes cover this song live.
- Paul McCartney occasionally plays this song after playing "Let Me Roll It"
- This song appears on the soundtrack for Gran Turismo 2.
- Dana Carvey mimes the song in the movie Wayne's World.
- This song is played in an episode of Boston Legal.
- Is played frequently on G3 tours during the G3 jam.
- Roger Taylor's The Cross covered the song on their 1989 album, Mad:Bad:And Dangerous to Know.
- Part of this song played in the Family Guy episode "Brian Sings and Swings".
- Guitarist Buckethead is known to play the song live as well as the song Purple Haze.
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