Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos", featured as the theme of the film Deliverance (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973. Eric Weissberg, American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2020)
16 August 1939
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