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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bluegrass musician Eric Weissberg (far right in the above photo) died yesterday at the age of 80. He had a hit with "Dueling Banjos" from the movie Deliverance in 1972. Weissberg's son Will confirmed ...

His melodic banjo work on a 1973 hit single (heard in the movie “Deliverance”) helped usher bluegrass music into the cultural mainstream. By Bill Friskics-Warren Eric Weissberg, a gifted ...

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 ...