Director John Boorman didn’t want an actor to play Lonnie, who is described in the script as “probably a half-wit, likely from a family inbred to the ...

Eric Weissberg, Whose ‘Dueling Banjos’ Was an Unlikely Smash, Dies at 80 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, 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.

Eric Weissberg, who helped popularize bluegrass with "Dueling Banjos," an unlikely hit on the soundtrack of "Deliverance," has died at 80.

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 ...