Everything Is One – (Behind The Album)
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