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 ...

That’s him sitting on a porch, picking a few notes from the bluegrass classic “Dueling Banjos” on a banjo as our wandering hero, portrayed by Ewan McGregor, enters the eerily idyllic ...

Redden played a kid who sat on a porch picking "Dueling Banjos" with Ronny Cox in ... In "Big Fish," he again sits on a porch as he picks a few notes from the familiar tune. Meeting Redden ...

Another cultural contribution is the iconic "Dueling Banjos." The song is at the center of the film's signature scene in which Drew, on guitar, plays a duet with a local boy named Lonnie ...

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 ...

Bluegrass musician Eric Weissberg, whose cover of the Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith instrumental “Dueling Banjos” became an unlikely pop hit when it appeared on the soundtrack to the 1972 ...

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Arthur Smith, the multi-instrumentalist and composer perhaps best known for 'Dueling Banjos,' has passed away at the age of 93. The Charlotte Observer reports that Smith died at his home in ...

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 ...

By Bill Friskics-Warren Eric Weissberg, a gifted multi-instrumentalist whose melodic banjo work on the 1973 hit single “Dueling Banjos” helped bring bluegrass music into the cultural ...