This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the screen adaptation of James Dickey’s Deliverance, as famous for its Grammy Award-winning instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” as its unsettling “bet you can ...

Rabun County, Georgia resident Billy Redden was 15 when he was discovered at a casting call in Clayton, Georgia and offered the part of the inbred banjo-playing boy in the 1972 Burt Reynolds sodomy ...

Born on August 16, 1939, in New York City, Weissberg was a bluegrass musician from an early age, having seen Pete Seeger play at his school in Greenwich Village, and went on to attend the Juilliard ...

His melodic banjo work on a 1973 hit single (heard in the movie “Deliverance”) helped usher bluegrass music into the cultural mainstream. By Bill Friskics-Warren Eric Weissberg, a gifted ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...

ATLANTA — He is probably one of the most iconic and memorable characters from the movie “Deliverance.” Billy Redden, who played the “Banjo Boy” in the movie, was just 15 when it was filmed in North ...

At 15, Billy Redden might have expected a career on the silver screen after appearing in Oscar-nominated movie Deliverance. But despite being one of the most unmistakable faces in Hollywood for a ...

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 ...