| They're Red Hot | |
| Cover: | They're Red Hot - single cover.jpg |
| Caption: | Original 78 record label |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Robert Johnson |
| Recorded: | November 27, 1936 |
| Studio: | Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Genre: | Blues, hokum |
| Length: | 2:58 |
| Label: | Vocalion |
| Producer: | 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 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.[1] The lyrics describe a woman selling hot tamales from a stall, with the aforementioned tamales being a popular food in the Mississippi Delta, which Johnson would likely have eaten many times.
Music historian Ted Gioia describes "They're Red Hot" as:
Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded the song for their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.[2] A reviewer in Far Out describes it as a "joke song":
