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« on: February 04, 2011, 06:36:45 PM » |
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But if you hear Banjer Music around here, you better paddle faster.
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 01:53:06 AM » |
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boy that kid with the banjo looks alot lik a young GW Bush
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 03:20:04 PM » |
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In Bred or not that boy can play.
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Billy Redden (born 1956 in Rabun County, Georgia) is an American actor best known for his role as Lonnie, the banjo-playing boy, in the 1972 movie Deliverance.
Redden, then sixteen, earned his role in Deliverance during a casting call at Clayton Elementary School in Clayton, Georgia. To add authenticity and humor to the film, the filmmakers found Redden to fit the look of the inbred and mentally retarded banjo boy called for by the book, although Redden himself is neither. His distinctive look was enhanced using special makeup.
In his famous scene, Redden plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" opposite actor Ronny Cox on guitar. It is noted for foreshadowing the film's theme: exploring unknown and potentially dangerous territory. Redden could not actually play the banjo. A musician reached around from behind Redden which was disguised using careful camera angles.
Jon Voight claimed Redden "was a boy who had a genetic imbalance – a product of his mother and his brother, I think. He was quite amazing, a very talkative fellow."[1]
Redden also appeared in Tim Burton's 2003 film Big Fish. Burton was intent on getting Redden, who hadn't appeared in a film since Deliverance, to play the role of a banjo-playing welcomer in the utopian town of Spectre. Burton eventually found him in Clayton, Georgia, where Redden worked as a cook, dishwasher and part-owner of the Cookie Jar Café.
In 2004, Redden made a guest appearance on Blue Collar TV playing an inbred car repairman named Ray in a "Redneck Dictionary" skit, for the word "raisin bread" (as in "Ray's inbred"). He played a banjo in the skit.
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2011, 03:24:44 PM » |
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I used to see him walking up and down the side of 441 back when I still lived in Mtn. City....not sure he ever had a car.....wonder what they paid him to be in the movie?
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2011, 03:46:16 PM » |
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Here's some of my Kin Folk. Please be kind and don't laugh at them.
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2011, 03:48:33 PM » |
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Thanks for the Billy Redden update Steamer, ain't it a small world.
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2011, 07:47:00 PM » |
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In Bred or not that boy can play.
..., the filmmakers found Redden to fit the look of the inbred and mentally retarded banjo boy called for by the book, although Redden himself is neither.
... Redden could not actually play the banjo. |
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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2011, 05:27:49 AM » |
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For an old Raised on Country Music, Redneck, Biscuit Lipped, Southern Gentlemen, Robert E,Lee Fan who lost his Arlington farm in the civil war to Yankee Agression. Now they bury our most HONORED,,, ON HIS OLD FARM, fitting as he was most Honorable and went with his most honored neighbors. Most People don't know this as the history books were written by Yanks. America is the best place on Earth to live and breath FREE AIR. This here is real music and everything else is second best.
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