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, 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 ...