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Rednex is a Swedish manufactured (currently for sale on eBay) band that had an international novelty hit with the song “Cotton Eye Joe” in 1995.
Rednex is the brainchild of Swedish producers Janne Ericsson, Örjan Öberg and Pat Reiniz, who decided to try mixing country music with techno. They decided to rework the traditional folk song, “Cotton-Eyed Joe”, into a dance song. They recorded the song with studio musicians, put together a fake group of redneck role players to represent a group, and released it in 1994, to huge worldwide success, especially in Europe and Australia.
An album titled Sex & Violins followed the hit song. Rednex went on to have other hits in Europe (its follow-up “Old Pop in an Oak” was done to the same tune), but “Cotton Eye Joe” remains their only U.S. hit as of 2006.
In 1995 Rednex released a macintosh computer game titled “Inbred With Rednex”. It also included several Red Book audio tracks.
In 2003 they released the album “Farmout” with the big Hit-Single “The Spirit Of The Hawk”.
The group launched something of a minor comeback when they entered the song “Mama Take Me Home” in Semifinal 4 of the Swedish Melodifestivalen on 11 March 2006 in Gothenburg. They qualified for the final via the Second Chance Round. |
