Eric Weissberg

Starting off as part of the sixties folk band The Tarriers, multi instrumentalist Eric Weissberg (guitar, mandolin, bass and a master of the banjo) became a first-call studio player for sessions with the likes of Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and Art Garfunkel. But his real claim to fame is having played the legendary Dueling Banjos song that became a hit as part of the 1973 movie Deliverance. No other banjo melody ever got that famous...