We asked seven banjo players about Deliverance, “Dueling Banjos” and how they discovered the instrument. 1. Noam Pikelny, Punch Brothers “I started playing banjo because my brother was ...

Georgia and offered the part of the inbred banjo-playing boy in the 1972 Burt Reynolds sodomy classic Deliverance. You might think being known as the guy who played an inbred, Yankee-fear-of ...

Movie buffs will remember the banjo kid from the beginning of the 1972 thriller Deliverance, but wouldn't be able to recognise him now. The banjo kid, real name Lonnie in the film, was played by ...

The banjo-playing teen star of the 1972 thriller film Deliverance looks unrecognizable more than five decades after the movie's release as he turns his back on showbiz. 51 years after the film ...

The 'Dueling Banjos' (guitar & banjo) scene was NOT part of the ... well paid and beat poverty by accident. The guy playing the guitar in Deliverance is Ronnie Cox. This is an excerpt of the ...

Cox’s character trades musical notes with a backwoods banjo-playing boy in the harrowing and grim “Deliverance” (1972). Boasting experience on Broadway, the actor went on to land sizable ...

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 ...

The song was released in 1955 as merely a banjo piece, played by Smith and fellow banjo ... on the Oscar-nominated and cult classic 1972 film Deliverance. The song is credited for arguably making ...