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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The movie that made the sound of dueling banjos synonymous with a lot of negative stereotypes40 years ago is being celebrated this weekend at the Chattooga River Festival.When “Deliverance" was made ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arthur Smith, a trailblazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded “Guitar Boogie” and “Dueling Banjos,” the latter heard in the acclaimed movie Deliverance, and influenced the Beatles, among ...

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 ...

Being one of the few men in Wisconsin who does not participate in the annual ritual called deer hunting, it was with a bit of apprehension when extended an invitation into one of the most hallowed ...

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 ...

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 ...