Kid Playing Guitar In Deliverance

The dueling banjo scene in john boorman s deliverance 1972 is one of my favorite musical moments ever in a film.

Kid playing guitar in deliverance. It s simultaneously delightful funny and deeply creepy. Boorman searched for a kid in the local community to play lonnie in this scene. Apparently he hated ned beatty.

The family of the boy was well paid and beat poverty by accident. In fact his first tv appearance was happy days in 1974. This is an excerpt of the film deliverance.

He played lonnie a banjo playing teenager in north georgia who played the noted dueling banjos with drew ballinger. Trey from dillard ga the characters in the movie that mimed it were ronny cox drew ballanger guitar and billy redden lonny banjo. Save your markings on the guitar by copying the web address in your browser.

The guitarist was steve mandell. Eric weissberg performed the soundtrack for the movie. The guy playing the guitar in deliverance is ronnie cox.

The boy billy redden actually is quite bright but because of the way he looked he was treated as retarded by the community redden couldn t play banjo so they found another kid who could. Billy redden the boy with the banjo liked ronny cox and hated ned beatty. At the end of the dueling banjos scene the script called for billy to harden his expression towards cox s character but billy couldn t pretend to hate cox.

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