The Chestnet Tree
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Sogni D'Oro
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Fools Get Away with the Impossible
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This Album has deep roots in both blues and folk...none of Piephoff's tracks lack lyrical density. He never wastes a breath in his narratives...Piephoff unmistakably has talent with his music, especially his lyrics.
-Morgan Ellis |
Bright Leaf Blues
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Bruce Piephoff shows a mastery of folk here that anyone in the world would envy. He knows exactly how it relates to blues. He knows that a folk artist should never hesitate to express the most educated thoughts and sophisticated sentiments with contractions and colloquialisms.
-Arthur Shuey |
Good People
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Good People review from Rambles magazine:
Bruce Piephoff is a singer-songwriter who is a credit to the profession. His lyrics are well crafted and arrangements make the message all the easier to accept. His subject matter ranges free and wide and never bores.
Opening with a lovely mythical land of "El Dorado" where there has "never been a war," he brings us on a journey through his imagination. Everyone has stayed at some time or other in a place where you could hear "Through Thin Hotel Walls," but few have written a song to hold the listener to the last note wondering what happens next. |
Hard Times for Dreamers
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Hard Times for Dreamers review by Arthur Shuey:
It is difficult to convey the real texture and quality of this album in a brief text piece. One might get a better introduction to Piephoff and his newest release by visiting www.flyincloudrecords.com , and I hope you will do so. In the space allotted here, I can only express admiration and suggest that, because one enters so wholly into Bruce Piephoff's world while listening to this CD, he is a great artist. One agrees with the title track that these are "Hard Times for Dreamers." One wonders what went through the mind of Brother "Daryl" that day they found him in the old oak tree. You see the morale-lifting and earthy virtue gained when you "Sign Behind the Plow," and so on through a dozen vignettes that rank beside the finest Southern fiction for welcoming visitors to our region. |
Slaughterhouse
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Slaughterhouse review by Sing Out! Magazine, an international folk music publication.
Prolific North Carolina singer-songwriter and poet Piephoff turns in another generous set (over 70 minutes) of country-blues-folk songs and spoken word pieces. Known for his warm, soft-spoken voice, front-porch acoustic arrangements, and finely wrought lyrics, Piephoff is a true folk storyteller who sustains tradition while helping it continue to grow -- Richard Middleton |
Fringeland
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A review for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange:
Listening to Bruce Piephoff's latest CD, Fringeland, I realize that the one thing that still surprises me about this musician is his versatility. Some things, of course, remain the same from one recording to the next (eight before this, if I count right). Piephoff's smooth, rich voice, never harsh but never wispy, that's always present. Likewise the smooth roll of the guitar, part Blind Boy Fuller and part Mississippi John Hurt. He's found a style that works, and within this style, Piephoff crafts songs that are as distinct from one another as they are subtly different from the work of any other singer-songwriter I've heard. And, he always pulls together a talented bunch of friends to back up his songs. -by Bruce E. Baker |
Deep River Anthology
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Hobo Nickel 
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Bootlegger
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South
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Hamburger Square
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Doctor River
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