“Foxy Lady” by Jimi Hendrix

"Foxy Lady" first surfaced on Are You Experienced, the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 debut, and later went out as the group's third American single under the spelling "Foxey Lady". Hendrix wrote it on his own, and it saunters in like a dare: one note held and shaken in a huge vibrato until the neighboring strings start humming, the amp left to howl into feedback, then a slide down into the riff.

That riff leans on a dominant seventh sharp ninth, the jazz-and-R&B voicing that got nicknamed the Hendrix chord, and the solo stays deep in the blues, all bent notes and slides. He kept it in his live sets for the rest of his career, and Rolling Stone later placed it at 153 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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