Eric Weissberg, half of the duo that recorded “Dueling Banjos” for the film “Deliverance” in 1973, resulting in an unlikely smash hit single and album, has died at 80. Family members and friends said ...

Born on August 16, 1939, in New York City, Weissberg was a bluegrass musician from an early age, having seen Pete Seeger play at his school in Greenwich Village, and went on to attend the Juilliard ...

Forty-five years ago, author James Dickey published "Deliverance," the acclaimed novel that was made into the 1972 Southern gothic film. The movie, which chronicles an ill-fated canoe trip taken by ...

Here's a fun tune to make your weekend better. Two of America's most beloved banjo players, Steve Martin and Kermit the Frog, have reunited to play their cover of the classic '50s tune Dueling Banjos.

In this corner, we have the fearsome frog, the amphibious astonisher, the talking and walking green Muppet who’ll have you feeling blue, for losing…KERMIT THE FROG. And in the other, it’s the Dirty, ...

I recently became mildly obsessed with "Dueling Banjos," the song popularized by the film Deliverance in spite of the fact that it was actually a dueling banjo and guitar. So I decided to pop onto ...

The Internet features more than its share of negativity and snark—sometimes you’ve just gotta vent. But there’s plenty of room for love, too. With Fan Up, we ask pop-culture people we admire to tell ...

'Dueling Banjos' songwriter, Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith has passed away just two days after his 93rd birthday. The songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and TV star came into the spotlight ...

Stephen A. Mandell, who shared a Grammy award with Eric Weissberg for their “Dueling Banjos” performance used in the 1972 movie “Deliverance,” died March 14 from prostate cancer at his Owings Mills ...

1) THE KINGDOM HAS COME/JOURNEY OF THE MAGI (Scott Miller, T.S. Eliot) – I knew I wanted R.B. Morris, fellow Knoxville artist, to read something, maybe the verses from Luke that everybody uses, but he ...

The soundtrack album for "Deliverance" spent three weeks at No. 1 and the single itself was No. 2 for four weeks in 1973. Eric Weissberg, half of the duo that recorded “Dueling Banjos” for the film ...

The soundtrack album for "Deliverance" spent three weeks at No. 1 and the single itself was No. 2 for four weeks in 1973. Eric Weissberg, half of the duo that recorded “Dueling Banjos” for the film ...