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Eric Weissberg

Eric Weissberg has been played on NTS shows including Halloween on NTS, with Dueling Banjos first played on 26 October 2022.

Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for playing solo in "Dueling Banjos," featured as the theme of the 1973 film Deliverance and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973.

Weissberg attended the University of Wisconsin, then the Juilliard School of Music. He joined an early version of the Greenbriar Boys (1958-59), but left before they made any recordings. He then joined The Tarriers,…

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Dueling Banjos
Eric Weissberg, Steve Mandell
Warner Bros. Records1973
Dueling Banjos
Eric Weissberg, Steve MandellWarner Bros. Records1973
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