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. 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: