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Eric Weissberg (1939-2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist. He played the famous banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos" from the film Deliverance (1972) and worked with many folk, bluegrass, rock, and popular musicians.
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 was a bluegrass musician who played banjo on the hit song "Dueling Banjos" from the film Deliverance and on Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. He died of dementia in 2020 after a long career of collaborating with many artists.
Mar 24, 2020 · Weissberg was a banjo player and session musician who recorded the instrumental for the 1972 film "Deliverance" with Steve Mandell. The song became a surprise pop and country hit in 1973, topping the charts and inspiring many fans to explore bluegrass music.
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 23, 2020 · Eric Weissberg was a folk musician who played banjo on the hit song "Dueling Banjos" from the movie "Deliverance". He also recorded with Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, and the Talking Heads, and died from Alzheimer's disease in 2020.
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Eric Weissberg was a multi-instrumentalist who played banjo on the hit song “Dueling Banjos” from the film Deliverance. He also worked with artists like Bob Dylan, Judy Collins and Frankie Valli, and died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2020.
