Dueling Banjos (album)

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| name = Dueling Banjos

| type = soundtrack

| artist = Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, and Eric Weissberg

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| alt = A photo of two men playing banjo facing one another: one seated on a porch several feet above the other

| released = {{start date|1973|01|}}

| recorded = 1962, 1972 ("Dueling Banjos")

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| genre = Bluegrass

| length = {{Duration|m=34|s=54}}

| language = English

| label = Warner Bros.

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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.

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.

Track listing

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

"Dueling Banjos" (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" – 2:00
"Earl's Breakdown" – 1:52
"End of a Dream" (arranged by Weissberg) – 1:49
"Buffalo Gals" (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
"Mountain Dew" – 1:26
"Rawhide" – 2:05

Personnel

Marshall Brickman – banjo on all tracks except "Dueling Banjos", arrangement
Steve Mandell – banjo and guitar on "Dueling Banjos"
Eric Weissberg – banjo, guitar, violin, vocals, arrangement

Additional personnel

Jimmy Bond – standup bass
Rick Conrad – proof reading
Jim Dickson – recording supervision
Jac Holzman – production supervision
Dino Lappas – audio engineering
Clarence White – guitar

Chart performance

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" \|+Chart performance for Dueling Banjos !scope="col"\|Chart !scope="col"\|Peak
scope="row"\|Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) \|align="center"\|61
scope="row"\|Billboard 200 \|align="center"\|1

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|+Chart performance for Dueling Banjos

!scope="col"|Chart

!scope="col"|Peak

scope="row"|Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)

|align="center"|61

scope="row"|Billboard 200

|align="center"|1

References

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{{Cite web |url=https://allmusic.com/album/mw0000651271 |title=Eric Weissberg – Dueling Banjos |language=en-US |website=AllMusic |publisher=RhythmOne |accessdate=2023-07-04 |first=Zac |last=Johnson |date=n.d.}}

{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1973-03-17 |magazine=Billboard |date=1973-03-17 |title=Billboard Top LP's and Tapes |page=66 |language=en-US |issn=0006-2510 |volume=85 |issue=11}}

{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1973-03-24 |magazine=Billboard |date=1973-03-24 |title=Billboard Top LP's and Tapes |page=67 |language=en-US |issn=0006-2510 |volume=85 |issue=12}}

{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1973-03-31 |magazine=Billboard |date=1973-03-31 |title=Billboard Top LP's and Tapes |page=74 |language=en-US |issn=0006-2510 |volume=85 |issue=13}}

{{cite book |last=Kent |first=David |author-link=David Kent (historian) |title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |edition=illustrated |publisher=Australian Chart Book |location=St Ives, New South Wales, Australia |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6 |page=281}}

{{cite book |first=Joel |last=Whitburn |year=2009 |title=Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums |author-link=Joel Whitburn |publisher=Record Research Inc. |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States |page=834 |isbn=978-0-89820-183-3}}

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