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Re: dueling banjos
Thu, January 22, 2004 - 2:51 PMI think it is the "Stairway to Heaven" of Bluegrass music. In that it is a beautiful performance, but it kind of gets overplayed and is one of the first things people learn on the respective instruments. It is not the composer or performers' fault. Scruggs and Page rule!
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Re: dueling banjos
Mon, April 12, 2004 - 3:08 PM
I love it. Especially the version by Weissberg and Mandel.
I must admit, i did feel a bit sheepish about asking my banjo teacher to teach it to me, since it is so overplayed. Actually,
I'm not sure overplayed is the right word, I rarely here it being played live. But I guess it seems overly dominant, in that it seems to define banjo music to non-banjo listeners. It seems like
everybody thinks thinks of that song when they think of the banjo.
I did.
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Re: dueling banjos
Fri, November 12, 2004 - 10:26 AMI kinda like it, both the Weisberg/Mandel version from "Deliverance" (or as my fellow archery-buffs refer to it, "Bow-Hunting Inbred Rednecks") and the original version that involved a 5-string and a tenor banjo (in place of the guitar) by Don Reno and ?
For that matter, I also like Martin Mull's "Dueling Tubas"... ;) -
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Re: dueling banjos
Thu, December 16, 2004 - 8:15 AMPossibly....it's been a lot of years since I owned the reording...
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Re: dueling banjos
Wed, February 13, 2008 - 11:43 PMDon Reno and Arthur Smith recorded it in '55 and it was first called Feudin' Banjos but called Deliverence in the movie
The tenor was flat picked and the 5 string was three fingered and there was also a mandolin
