![]() ![]() He brings in accordion and keyboard to some songs, invites several area bluegrass pickers who were part of his first recordings a decade before, and frequently vocalizes in harmony with singer Claire Holley. But speaking of those frightening places, Piephoff also attempts to make a more ambitious work than usual for himself, at least instrumentally. He visits a local supermarket in the lyrics to one song and lists some of the jobs he's had in another, as if he were out shopping or on the phone with a potential employer and not in the recording studio. Greensboro, NC, poet, songwriter, and performer Bruce Piephoff, holding forth on a variety of subjects from light to almost unspeakably heavy, seems more interested in coming across as a normal human being than an artistic übermensch rendering a masterpiece. ![]() If all of the 20 different tracks on this collection worked like a charm, it would have almost been too much to take. ![]()
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