LIFE'S EASY PICKINGS FOR DELIVERANCE BANJO BOY
Globe US|August 21, 2023
THE famed backwoods banjo boy who wowed the world in the 1972 Burt Reynolds flick Deliverance is now struggling to make ends meet with odd jobs — and can’t play the instrument that made him a movie icon! 
LIFE'S EASY PICKINGS FOR DELIVERANCE BANJO BOY

Billy Redden, now 66, played a teenage hillbilly with lightning fast fingers in a banjo duel in the movie but it was all a fake. His banjo playing was done by the late bluegrass string man Eric Weissberg, who stuck his arms through the back of Billy’s shirt, say sources. 

This story is from the August 21, 2023 edition of Globe US.

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