''Dueling Banjos'' is a 1973

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to the film '' Deliverance'' by American banjoists Marshall Brickman,

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, and Eric Weissberg released by Warner Bros. Records and made up of the title track by Mandell and Weissberg and a repackaged version of the 1963 album ''New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass'' by Brickman and Weissberg.

Reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Zac Johnson writing that "the blistering virtuosity of multi-instrumentalists Eric Weissberg and Marshall Brickman ripple through such traditional numbers" and that this serves as a good introduction to

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for listeners.

Track listing

All tracks are traditional compositions, arranged and adapted by Marshall Brickman and Eric Weissberg, except where noted #"

Dueling Banjos "Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The song was composed in 1954 by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos," which contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plec ...

" (arranged by Weissberg) – 3:16 #"Little Maggie" – 1:12 #"Shuckin' the Corn" – 2:12 #"Pony Express" – 2:06 #" Old Joe Clark" – 1:50 #"Eight More Miles to Louisville" – 2:03 #"

Farewell Blues "Farewell Blues" is a 1922 jazz standard written by Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo and Elmer Schoebel. Background The song was recorded on August 29, 1922, in Richmond, Indiana and released as Gennett 4966A, Matrix #11179, as by the Friars Society Orches ...

" – 2:00 #"Earl's Breakdown" – 1:52 #"End of a Dream" (arranged by Weissberg) – 1:49 #"

Buffalo Gals "Buffalo Gals" is a traditional American song, written and published as "Lubly Fan" in 1844 by the blackface minstrel John Hodges, who performed as "Cool White". The song was widely popular throughout the United States, where minstrels often alt ...

" (written by Brickman) – 2:18 #"Reuben's Train" – 2:58 #"Riding the Waves" – 1:35 #"Fire on the Mountain" – 2:18 #"Eighth of January" – 1:07 #" Bugle Call Rag" – 1:32 #"Hard Ain't It Hard" (written by Woody Guthrie) – 1:50 #"

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" – 1:26 #"Rawhide" – 2:05

Personnel

* Marshall Brickman – banjo on all tracks except "Dueling Banjos",

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– banjo and guitar on "Dueling Banjos" * Eric Weissberg – banjo, guitar, violin, vocals, arrangement Additional personnel *

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–

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*Rick Conrad – proof reading *Jim Dickson – recording supervision * Jac Holzman – production supervision *Dino Lappas –

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* Clarence White – guitar

Chart performance

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