Sex & Violins is the debut studio album by Swedish Eurodance group Rednex, released on Battery Records in February 1995.
Content
Six singles, including one promotional single, were released from it. The female vocals are from Annika Ljungberg, who left the band in 1996 due to a disagreement with the other band members, after the release of the fifth single, "Rolling Home", to start a solo career.
The album was a commercial success, including the hit dance single "Cotton Eye Joe". The album was re-titled Cotton Eye Joe (Sex & Violins) for the US release, presumably due to the original album cover, although a modified version was briefly released in the US (minus the image of a person urinating in a cup) prior to the retitling. Track number 8 is also known as "Harder Than Your Husband".[2]
"The Sad But True Story of Ray Mingus, the Lumberjack of Bulk Rock City, and His Never Slacking Strive to Exploit the So Far Undiscovered Areas of the Intention to Bodily Intercourse from the Opposite Species of His Kind, During Intake of All the Mental Conditions That Could Be Derived from Fermentation" (also known as "Harder Than Your Husband"[3])
"Rolling Home" (Treatow's Treatment Radio Mix) – 4:40
"Old Pop in an Oak" (DJ Cerla & Moratto Remix) – 5:08
"Old Pop in an Oak" (West Side Story Mix) – 3:16
CD-ROM
Hieroglyph (Game only, 4.09 MB)
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