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William Redden (born October 13, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as a backwoods mountain boy in the 1972 film Deliverance, where he played Lonnie, a banjo-playing teenager in north Georgia, who played the noted "Dueling Banjos" with Drew Ballinger ().
James V. "Jimmy" Henley (September 2, 1963 – March 22, 2020) was an American banjo player who played bluegrass music.He won several banjo contests as a young boy. As a young boy he met country music star Roy Clark at the New Mexico State Fair and Clark invited him to perform on National television.
Holcombe was born in Alabaster, Alabama and began playing the banjo at age eleven. [4] As a child, Holcombe appeared on NBC's The Big Show [5] the Country Boy Eddy Show, [6] and later, in 1977, The New Mickey Mouse Club, [7] and was featured on Kids are People Too. [8]
The first banjo method was the Briggs' Banjo instructor (1855) by Tom Briggs. [36] Other methods included Howe's New American Banjo School (1857), and Phil Rice's Method for the Banjo, With or Without a Master (1858). [36] These books taught the "stroke style" or "banjo style", similar to modern "frailing" or "clawhammer" styles. [36]
In his mid-teens, Skaggs met a fellow teen guitarist, Keith Whitley, and the two started playing together with Whitley's banjo playing brother, Dwight, on radio shows. By 1970, they had earned a spot opening for Ralph Stanley , and Skaggs and Keith Whitley were thereafter invited to join Stanley's band, the Clinch Mountain Boys .
Charles Wilburn Trent was born on February 17, 1938. [2] Trent was performing on radio stations WORD and WSPA in Spartanburg by age 11. [2] He traveled to California and Texas, finally arriving in Nashville in 1959 where he joined the Bill Carlisle Show and first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry.