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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 United States and Canada in 1973.
Mar 23, 2020 · 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 ...
Mar 23, 2020 · Eric Weissberg, who turned "Dueling Banjos" into a No. 2 hit in 1973 and later played on Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks,' has died at 80.
Mar 23, 2020 · Eric Weissberg played banjo on the hit song “Dueling Banjos,” the theme song for the movie “Deliverance.” The song was recorded by Weissberg and fellow musician Steve Mandell and became a ...
Mar 24, 2020 · 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...
Mar 23, 2020 · 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...
Mar 24, 2020 · Eric Weissberg, one of the pickers behind the iconic version of "Dueling Banjos" heard in the 1972 Burt Reynolds film Deliverance, passed away on Sunday (March 22) following a battle with ...
