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'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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
He is probably one of the most iconic and memorable characters from the movie “Deliverance.” Billy Redden, who played the “Banjo Boy” in the movie, was just 15 when it was filmed in North Georgia in ...
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 ...
The Pondera Arts Council presents a fun, family-friendly concert featuring a pair of musical acts at the Orpheum Theatre in Conrad on Jan. 17. The 14th Street Barbershop Quartet performs first, ...
(CBS News) There aren't too many famous banjo fanatics out there, but Steve Martin and everybody's favorite green frog are certainly two of them. So we are more than happy to see the pair face off in ...
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 ...