An Evening with Daniel Ayers & Bruce Piephoff

There are a number of fine young musicians interpreting the "real world" for their millennial compadres. Daniel Ayers, that's who, North Carolina's native son, a sensitive soul, a student in the Bruce Piephoff and David Childers school of songwriting. His songs are sonar for modern times, mapping the millennial condition through resonance and reflection. He sings of small hands (Citizen Plain), Kenyan convicts and heroes (Chelimo Ran to Rio), spilt urns and sugarcane sweet tea (I'd Rather Die From Loving You), the Millennial Blues (Eponymous), and the seldom-trod intersection of personal hygiene with U.S.-Mexico relations (The Walkin' Talkin' Wetback Blues).

For almost fifty years, Bruce Piephoff has blazed a broad and deep musical trail as an independent singer, songwriter, and poet; he has recorded 21 CDs of original material for Flyin' Cloud Records, and performed thousands of shows nationwide on the folk singer/songwriter circuit.