'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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born on August 16, 1939, in New York City, Weissberg was a bluegrass musician from an early age, having seen Pete Seeger play at ...

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 ...

The 'Dueling Banjos' (guitar & banjo) scene was NOT part of the original script in the movie, until the cameraman happened to catch it on film. NOTE: The family of the boy was well paid and beat ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He is probably one of the most iconic and memorable characters from the movie “Deliverance.” Billy Redden, who played the “Banjo ...

Funny or Die continues to trot out the big guns for its fancy new redesign. Here’s comedy’s two most famous banjo players, Steve Martin and Kermit the Frog, playing “Dueling Banjos.” Both of their ...

Arthur Smith, a multi-instrumentalist whose song "Feudin' Banjos" later became known as the popular "Dueling Banjos," has died. He was 93. By Kevin Rutherford Arthur Smith, a multi-instrumentalist ...

ASPEN – Banjo players are used to being the butt of jokes, but they are rarely accused of brandishing their instrument as a potential weapon. Joseph Stancato, 32, of Denver, was charged with ...

Eric Weissberg, who arranged, played banjo on and won a Grammy for “Dueling Banjos,” from the 1972 movie Deliverance, died Sunday of Alzheimer’s disease complications. He was 80. His son, Will ...