Psychograss was an American bluegrass supergroup founded by fiddler

Darol Anger Darol Anger is an American violinist and founding member of The David Grisman Quintet. Career Darol Anger entered popular music at the age of 21 as a founding member of The David Grisman Quintet. Anger played fiddle to David Grisman's mando ...

and mandolinist Mike Marshall. Anger and Marshall had been members of the

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Quintet, the band

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, and had performed as a duo. They invited two other Grisman players, bassist

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and percussionist

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, and recorded their first album in 1993. Tim O'Brien sang on the album and

Tony Trischka Anthony Cattell Trischka (born January 16, 1949) is an American five-string banjo player. Sandra Brennan wrote of him in 2021: "One of the most influential modern banjoists, both in several forms of bluegrass music and occasionally in jazz and ...

played banjo. Guitarist

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joined the band on their second album, which included a cover version of a

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song.

Discography

* ''Psychograss'' (

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, 1993) * ''Like Minds'' ( Sugar Hill, 1996) * ''Now Hear This'' (Adventure, 2005)

References

External links

Darol Anger's Official Site
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