Dueling_Banjos:_From_the_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack_Deliverance

<i>Dueling Banjos</i> (album)

Dueling Banjos (album)

1973 soundtrack album by Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, and Eric Weissberg

Dueling Banjos is a 1973 soundtrack album to the film Deliverance by American banjoists Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, 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.

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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 bluegrass music for listeners.[1]

Track listing

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

  1. "Dueling Banjos" (arranged by Weissberg) – 3:16
  2. "Little Maggie" – 1:12
  3. "Shuckin' the Corn" – 2:12
  4. "Pony Express" – 2:06
  5. "Old Joe Clark" – 1:50
  6. "Eight More Miles to Louisville" – 2:03
  7. "Farewell Blues" – 2:00
  8. "Earl's Breakdown" – 1:52
  9. "End of a Dream" (arranged by Weissberg) – 1:49
  10. "Buffalo Gals" (written by Brickman) – 2:18
  11. "Reuben's Train" – 2:58
  12. "Riding the Waves" – 1:35
  13. "Fire on the Mountain" – 2:18
  14. "Eighth of January" – 1:07
  15. "Bugle Call Rag" – 1:32
  16. "Hard Ain't It Hard" (written by Woody Guthrie) – 1:50
  17. "Mountain Dew" – 1:26
  18. "Rawhide" – 2:05

Personnel

Additional personnel

Chart performance

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Johnson, Zac (n.d.). "Eric Weissberg – Dueling Banjos". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  2. [2]
    Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, New South Wales, Australia: Australian Chart Book. p. 281. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. [3]
    "Billboard Top LP's and Tapes". Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 11. March 17, 1973. p. 66. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. [4]
    "Billboard Top LP's and Tapes". Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 12. March 24, 1973. p. 67. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. [5]
    "Billboard Top LP's and Tapes". Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 13. March 31, 1973. p. 74. ISSN 0006-2510.
  6. [6]
    Whitburn, Joel (2009). Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States: Record Research Inc. p. 834. ISBN 978-0-89820-183-3.
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