I am one of you forever: A conversation with Fred Chappell smokymountainnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from smokymountainnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In conversation, Fred Chappell is a man of few words and sentiments. Perhaps that’s because he uses all of his vocabulary and emotions to spill across.
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.