The Cotton Eye Joe Show is the third studio album by Swedish dance group Rednex.

[1] It marks the second release to feature original lead singer Annika Ljungberg, who rejoined Rednex and replaced the previous female vocalist Julie-Anne Tulley, when she departed from the group.

Following the releases of the previous albums in 2002 and 2003, their first and second compilation albums The Best of the West and Cotton Eye Joe, and the two single releases "The Chase" and the 2000 version of "Cotton Eye Joe", and a short break, the band returned in 2006 with their original lead singer Annika Ljungberg, who rejoined Rednex and replaced the previous female vocalist Julie-Anne Tulley.

Unlike the band's previous studio albums "Sex & Violins" and "Farm Out", which have as similar amount on dance/country, classic country songs and ballads, "The Cotton Eye Joe Show" is a more pop album with softer classic country songs.

The promotional singles were "With Bells On", "Well-O-Wee" and "Railroad, Railroad", with the first mentioned being a Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton cover, and the latter two mentioned, both featuring Romanian group Ro-Mania, and being Romanian national pre-selections for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.