''Sex & Violins (''also known on later US releases as ''Cotton Eye Joe (Sex & Violins)'') is the debut studio album by Swedish

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group Rednex, released on

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in February 1995.

Content

Female vocals on the album are provided by Annika Ljungberg; due to a disagreement with the other band members, she left the band after the release of the album's fifth single, " Rolling Home", in 1996, to start a solo career. The album was a commercial success, including the hit dance single "

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". For its US release, the album was retitled ''Cotton Eye Joe (Sex & Violins)'' and received new cover art – presumably due to the possible offensive nature of the original artwork, which depicted a person urinating into a cup. Initially, the album received an edited version of this cover, which removed both the person and the stream of urine. This would be substituted for wholly original artwork for a short time, which depicted a desert landscape warped by heat haze, but returned to the unedited original cover after a single pressing.

Track listing

Notes * signifies a co-producer

Personnel

* Accordion – Ari Haatainen and Henrik Widén * Banjo – Gary Johansson, General Custer, and Kjell Johansson * Bass – Björn Lagberg * Drums – Anders Lövmark, Animal, and Heffa * Guitar – Anders Hellquist, Boba, Bonne Lövman, Clint Eastwood, and Henrik Jansson * Steel guitar – Uffe Sterling * Harmonica – Ove Sandberg * Piano – Henrik Widén * Violin – Bosse Nilsson * Vocals – Anders Hansson, Annika Ljungberg, Björn Lagberg, Camena, Camilla Molinder, Chris Sylvan Stewart, Cool James, Currey, Göran Danielsson, Hanna Wannagárd, Henrik Widen, Hoss, Janne Ericsson, Jean-Paul Wall, Jeanette Söderholm, Joe Cartwright, Lotten Andersson, Ludde, Michelle Anenberg, Monte Reid, Pat Reiniz, Stefan Cevaco, Sir Een, Thomas Hegert, and Zeb Macahan * Whistle – Jean-Paul Wall

Production

* Producers – Pat Reiniz, Janne Ericsson, Anders Hansson, Denniz Pop, Max Martin, David Millington, Stefan Sir Een, L. Teijo, Anders Hellquist, and Thomas Hegert * Engineering assistant – Jacob Schultze

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Sales and certifications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sex and Violins 1995 debut albums Rednex albums Albums produced by Max Martin Battery Records (dance) albums