"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" and this is how it is still unfortunately known among USA fans and critics today. The rest of the world, however, spells it without an "e".
Foxey is actually an archaic alternative spelling. Foxy or Foxey, amongst other things can mean rank, or stinking. Although in this context that would seem ridiculous.
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".
