Story song from new CD Still Looking Up at the Stars, featuring Bruce Piephoff, vocals, guitar, Scott Sawyer, lead guitar, Bobby Cohen, drums and John Simonetti, bass

01 01 Don Quixote Side

Song from new CD, Still Looking Up at the Stars  Bruce Piephoff singer/songwriter, acoustic guitar, Bobby Cohen drums, Scott Sawyer electric guitar, Adrian Duke piano and John Simonetti on bass

03 03 Still Looking Up At The Stars

Folk/jazz  Bruce Piephoff-vocals, acoustic guitar, Scott Sawyer-electric guitar, Dave Finucane-sax, Bobby Cohen-drums and Ron Brendle-a-bass

12 12 Her Habit Was Strong

Story song by Bruce Piephoff from his new CD, Still Looking Up at the Stars.  Scott Sawyer on lead guitar, Dave Finucane on sax, Ron Brendle on bass and Bobby Cohen on drums

13 13 Old Crow

Impressions from looking out from the stage of the Nightshade Cafe.  Scott Sawyer on lead guitar, John Simonetti on bass.

16 16 Pyramid's Pace

Story song from the CD, Clockwork. about two lovers meeting secretly in eastern N.C.  Sam Frazier on lead electric guitar; Martha Bassett, Sam and Pat Lawrence sing harmony vocals and Pat plays a-bass.

07 Song Of The Open Road

Written in Hampton, VA while working as Visiting Artist through the Va. Commission for the Arts.  Appears on the new CD, Still Looking Up at the Stars.  Mike Babyak on steel guitar.

17 17 Wind From Newport News

Song I wrote and dedicate to Jim Young, Pa. poet/ex-marine, who was once called "the Francois Villon of Tate St.  This is a bonus track for the CD, Still Looking Up at the Stars.

Fire Fix on Fun Street

Song from the CD, Fools Get Away With the Impossible.  Sam Frazier-lead guitar, Renee Mendoza Haran-vocals, Scotty Irving-percussion

14 Ringmaker

Renee Mendoza Haran sings with me on this song from the CD, The Chestnut Tree.  Scott Walker plays Cello.

03 Earthly Waters

Song from my 4th album(1st CD), South.  Recorded in Orlando, FL where I lived for a year working as Visiting Artist for Florida Commission for the Arts.  Scott Manring on lead guitar.

01 In My Time

Song from the CD by the same name about the closing of textile mills in Piedmont NC.  Scott Manring on lead guitar, Scotty Irving on drums and Martha Bassett on vocals.

01 Hard Times For Dreamers

Title track from the CD, Hobo Nickel, about a man on the street.  Recorded live in Charlotte with just me and Scott Manring(lead guitar)

02 Hobo Nickel

Memoirs of a freeman and a drifter.  From the CD, The Chestnut Tree.

05 Ralph

This world runs like clockwork, unfortunately it's a cuckoo clock.  From the CD, Clockwork.  Scott Adair plays sax, Pat Lawrence-a-bass and Pat and Martha Bassett sing backup vocals

03 This World Runs Like Clockwork

Hucksters is a term I heard Down East in N.C.  Fred Chappell told me that in the mountains of N.C.  they called such folks "pinhookers"  This spoken word piece from the new CD, Still Looking Up at the Stars, features the improvisational  performances of Scott Sawyer on guitar and Bobby Cohen on drums and percussion.

07 07 Hucksters


Bruce Piephoff has been writing and performing songs and poetry for over 40
years.  He began in Chapel Hill, NC in the late 60's, while a student at
UNC-Chapel Hill, at the age of 19.  Searching for a major, he decided on
English, and followed a life long love of literature.  As a child, Bruce was
a dreamer at heart, and loved the classic comic books of that time.  These
led him to the classics themselves, including Huckleberry Finn, The Count of
Monte Cristo, Moby Dick, etc.  

 

After two years, Bruce dropped out of college to pursue music.  He was
particularly inspired by his dad's collection of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie
records.  His dad also played guitar, harmonica, and sang as a hobby, but
Bruce immediately felt this could be his vocation.  Bruce traveled
nationwide, playing in small cafes and bars.  He spent time in New York,
Nashville, and Los Angeles, before travelling to Europe and playing in the
streets of Amsterdam as a busker.  By the age of 27, he had landed back in
Durham, NC, working at John Umstead Hospital as a music and recreation
therapist, and playing his music on weekends.  

 

From there, Bruce decided to go back to UNC-Greensboro, where he finished
his education with a B.A. in English, and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from
the school's acclaimed writing program.  He studied poetry with Fred
Chappell and Robert Watson before entering the N.C. Arts Council's Visiting
Artists Program.  This program enabled Bruce to become the
Artist-in-Residence in a number of community colleges across NC, including
those in Columbus, Brunswick, and Pitt counties. He then went on to
residencies in Orlando, FL; Danville, VA; Norfolk, VA; and western NC.
Bruce appeared at thousands of performances through this program, at
locations such as schools, churches, and festivals, until the program ended
in 2001.  

 

Since then, Bruce has returned to working as an independent singer,
songwriter, and poet; he has recorded 21 CDs of original material for Flyin'
Cloud Records, and performed nationwide on the folk singer/songwriter
circuit.  He just published his second book of poetry, Fiddlers and Middlers,
in 2009. In October, 2011, he released his 21st CD, Still Looking Up At The Stars, produced by Scott Sawyer.   Bruce has shared the stage with
Steve Forbert, Riders In The Sky, Greg Allman, Chuck Brodsky, Tom Paxton,
and others,  and has played everywhere from Merlefest to the Kennedy
Center in Washington, DC.

Bruce Piephoff 
Bruce Piephoff has been recording and performing, mostly out of Greensboro, for several decades. Firmly a part of the Appalachian tradition of story-songs and character portraits, it’s his versatility that makes his music so fascinating. Easily touching both the shores of folk music and poetry with simple, compelling imagery and subtle depth, Piephoff's unassuming voice, ringing with wit and sincerity, steals the show.   

BRUCE PIEPHOFF w/ SCOTT SAWYER
Bruce Piephoff has been writing and performing songs and poetry for over 40 years. He began in Chapel Hill, NC in the late 60's while a student at UNC-Chapel Hill. Bruce has recorded 21 CDs of original, independent, songs and poetry for Flyin' Cloud Records and Speranza Records, and has performed nationwide on the folk singer/songwriter circuit. He just published his second book of poetry, Fiddlers and Middlers, in 2009. Bruce has shared the stage with Steve Forbert, Riders In The Sky, Greg Allman, Chuck Brodsky, Tom Paxton, and others, and has played everywhere from Merlefest to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Fresh out of high school, Scott met Bruce circa 1976 on Tate St. in Greensboro, NC. The untimely demise of a mutual & dear friend initiated their 1st performance together in almost 30 years (summer of 2009). With Scott Sawyer on lead electric guitar, Bruce, on acoustic guitar, harmonica and vocals, performs his music and poetry, spanning material from the 1970's and forward. Fans of Townes van Zandt, Elizabeth Cotten, Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Joni Mitchell, the blues, roots music, the beat poets, Bukowski, jazz and more are urged to check out this "rare" collaboration.

www.brucepiephoff.net
www.scottsawyer.net/bruce&scott.html
www.reverbnation.com/brucepiephoff

Bookings:
Laura Dodd
brucepiephoff@gmail.com
336.852.7218

Bruce Piephoff

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