Bluegrass musician Eric Weissberg, whose cover of the Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith instrumental “Dueling Banjos” became an unlikely pop hit when it appeared on the soundtrack to the 1972 film ...

'Dueling Banjos' songwriter, Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith has passed away just two days after his 93rd birthday. The songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and TV star came into the spotlight ...

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 friends said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born on August 16, 1939, in New York City, Weissberg was a bluegrass musician from an early age, having seen Pete Seeger play at ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Arthur Smith, a music legend and TV pioneer from Charlotte, died Thursday at the age of 93, according to WSOC-TV. Smith gained national attention in 1955 after composing a banjo ...

Stephen A. Mandell, who shared a Grammy award with Eric Weissberg for their “Dueling Banjos” performance used in the 1972 movie “Deliverance,” died March 14 from prostate cancer at his Owings Mills ...

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 ...

Arthur Smith, the multi-instrumentalist and composer perhaps best known for 'Dueling Banjos,' has passed away at the age of 93. The Charlotte Observer reports that Smith died at his home in Charlotte, ...

Eric Weissberg, who arranged, played banjo on and won a Grammy for “Dueling Banjos,” from the 1972 movie Deliverance, died Sunday of Alzheimer’s disease complications. He was 80. His son, Will ...