Plenty of people recall the eerie banjo boy from the 1972 movie Deliverance. Billy Redden was merely 15 years old when he featured in the Academy Award-nominated picture. The movie, helmed by British ...

The banjo boy from Deliverance left an unforgettable mark on movie lovers back in 1972. Billy Redden was just 15 when he appeared in the Oscar-nominated thriller. The film directed by Brit John ...

If you know the famous banjo-and-guitar showdown from Deliverance, you know Eric Weissberg, even if you don't immediately recognize his name. Weissberg, who was born Aug. 16, 1939, would have turned ...

The history of the instrumental bluegrass song “Dueling Banjos” has a tempestuous story thanks to the fact that the original songwriter is often not gifted credit for the song’s birth. That being said ...