Roy Clark & Buck Trent – Dueling Banjos
An evening pause: While the version of this song for the movie Deliverance (1972) was quite good, I really dislike how that film made all country folk look like they were mentally and physically crippled. The portrayal seemed quite bigoted.
This performance, however, just shows us some great banjo playing, the way it should be done.
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As a kid growig up in Queens, NYC in the 1970’s, I was an oddity because all I wanted to do was play the five string banjo like Earl Scruggs and Steve Martin. The five string banjo is an original America instrument having been adapted from a stringed gourd instrument of the African slaves. I love playing a truly American instrument and musical form, Bluegrass.
Dueling Banjos is a tour de force song and I have not seen this particular clip from “Hee Haw” in years. Thank you.
Surprised those two didn’t set off the sprinkler system.
As Steve Martin demonstrated, you can’t be unhappy playing the banjo.
Ha..I still have my vinyl album of Steve Martin’s comedy act and still play it on my turntable. Yes, I’m retro. It was Steve Martin’s banjo virtuosity and his making it look so cool while being a funny man that made me as a kid want to play the banjo. I can still recite his act of singing sad dirge lyrics to the happy plinky-plunk of his banjo….”death…destruction…”plinckity-plunkity. Funny, funny stuff. Nothing political, just goofy, silly comedy at a time in the late seventies when we all needed a boost and a good laugh.
Great find!