Pete Francis (b. 1975)

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“A Pete Francis record feels like a ride from New York City to the coast of Maine.”

American Musician, Writer, Poet, Singer-Songwriter, Founding member of Dispatch

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“Everyone knows my hair is ash”

Everything Is One
Francis / Dreyer

1. Things You’ll Never Find 
2. Crooked Bones
3. Eyes of the Sun
4. Nameless Pain
5. Blue and Yellow
6. Elena
7. Cannonball
8. Everything Is One
9. Wonderful
10. Passing Time

Year: 2006

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“Craig Dreyer and I both shared a love for poetry and philosophy. Craig is hands-down the best saxophonist I've ever heard. When I was a kid my favorite movie was the Blues Brothers. When I met Craig I felt that I had met the real Elwood Blues. He always had on dark shades and a cool hat. Aside from being a skilled musician, Craig was a real artist; he was articulate about many different art forms. To me he captured so much of what I loved about Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen. I remember specifically working on the song lyrics for Things You'll Never Find. We wanted to express the right details like the cayenne spice and the fluke of the harbor whale. Craig also had a love for recording gear: vintage microphones, Rhodes and Wurlitzer keyboards, and tape machines and consoles. I became very interested in how great records were made. Craig had explanations for everything pertaining to recording and philosophy. Blue and Yellow is one of the first songs I ever wrote, I was probably 16. It's about my Mom's journey across the Atlantic on a ship that left Stockholm in 1961 heading for New York City. William Quigley sculpted the two heads for the cover art and my brother Eric lit and took photos of the heads. We loved the idea that we were philosophers in the year 2006 and our busts had been carved by a master artist. Socrates and Aristotle or Francis and Dreyer or that was what we liked to think!”  – Pete Francis







Album Credits:
Drums: Marty Richards
Bass: Marty Ballou
Keyboards: Paul Tillotson
Vocals, saxophone, guitar, Hammond B3: Craig Dreyer
Vocals, guitars: Pete Francis
Trumpet and Flugelhorn: Tim Ouimette
Trombone: Nate Mayland
Mandolin: Jack Petruzelli
Pedal steel guitar: Buddy Cage

Produced by Francis/Dreyer with Rob Fraboni

Recorded by Jack Gauthier at Lakewest Recording Studio

Overdubs by Craig Dreyer at Mighty Toad

Mixed by Rob Fraboni at The Showplace, assisted by Mike Schmeider 

Mastered by Rob Fraboni at Effortless Masters

Things You'll Never Find, Cannonball, Eyes of The Sun written by Francis/Dreyer, Dragon Crest Collective BMI, Mighty Toad Music ASCAP

Blue and Yellow and Wonderful written by Pete Francis Dragon Crest Collective BMI

Crooked Bones, Everything is One written by Craig Dreyer Mighty Toad Music ASCAP

Nameless Pain, Elena, Passing Time written by Craig Dreyer and Michael Parrish Mighty Toad Music ASCAP, Psychedelic Cowboy Music inc. BMI

Sculptures: Wiliam Quigley

Photography: Eric Heimbold, assisted by Matt Rohrs 

Design and layout: Jeremy Miller