Bruce Piephoff is a meanderer. He's a wanderer, a poet, singer/songwriter, a folky philosopher. He's been settled down now for quite a while with wife Laura and son David, but his thoughts still take him for strolls in a lush, wordy forest. A basketball player in high school at Grimsley, Piephoff's musical journey took him off the boards and onto the road. Initially planning to play basketball at UNC-Chapel Hill, he decided he wasn't destined to be a baller and investigated his musical curiosity instead. He says that going to Chapel Hill was like going to Paris for him, a revelation that aroused his journalistic and musical neurons and set him on a path he would follow on a roundabout sort of fashion from then on.