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Elektra, Warner Bros. Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos", featured as the theme of the film Deliverance (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the ...
Warner Bros. Dueling Banjos is a 1973 soundtrack album to the film Deliverance by American banjoists Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, and Eric Weissberg released by Warner Bros. Records and made up of the title track by Mandell and Weissberg and a repackaged version of the 1963 album New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass by Brickman ...
Eric Weissberg, a gifted multi-instrumentalist whose melodic banjo work on the 1973 hit single “ Dueling Banjos ” helped bring bluegrass music into the cultural mainstream, died on Sunday in a...
23 mar 2020 · March 23, 2020. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Bluegrass musician Eric Weissberg, whose cover of the Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith instrumental “Dueling Banjos” became an unlikely pop hit...
Multi-instrumentalist Eric Weissberg, half of the duo (along with Steve Mandell) that scored an unlikely #2 hit in 1973 with “Dueling Banjos,” popularized in the hit film Deliverance, died March 22, 2020, at a nursing home near Detroit, Mich. The cause was Alzheimer’s disease.
12 feb 2019 · Jack Guthrie (1915-1948) Jack Guthrie (born Leon Jerry Guthrie) was Woody's cousin and one of the first people with whom Woody explored music. Jack grew up playing guitar and fiddle, and he had a deep fascination with the cowboy lifestyle. By the time he was a teenager, Jack and his family had moved to California, where he took to modeling his ...
by Bill Friskics-Warren. NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Eric Weissberg, a gifted multi-instrumentalist whose melodic banjo work on the 1973 hit single “Dueling Banjos” helped bring bluegrass music into the cultural mainstream, died Sunday in a nursing home near Detroit. He was 80.
