Pete Francis Heimbold is a solo musical artist formerly of the bands Dispatch, Woodriver bandits and Hermit Thrush. He plays guitar, bass, and is a singer/song-writer. Francis pursued a successful musical career with the independent band Dispatch for eight years, and is now continuing to write, play, and record solo. He draws his inspiration from his studies of poetry, art, and music from around the world. The style of his music takes on aspects of blues, folk, pop, soul, and rock.

Tour

Francis will continue to tour on his own in 2008, frequently accompanied by Boo Reiners on guitar and lap steel guitar. Perhaps most notably, Pete will be playing at Wakarusa Festival from June 5th-8th, and headlining the Chipotle Kitchen Stage at Summerfest on June 27, 2008.
In February 2009, Francis joined up with Barefoot Truth for a 17-city east coast tour. On March 21, 2009, Francis reunited with Brad Corrigan (Braddigan) at Bates College in Lewiston, ME for a three hour concert that featured performances by Pete Francis and Barefoot Truth, Braddigan and his band, an acoustic set performed by Francis and Braddigan, and a final set featuring both bands playing together. Also occasionally joining Francis and Barefoot Truth on their joint tour was New York singer-songwriter Billy Simons.

Discography

• 2001: So They Say - Scrapper Records

• 2003: Untold - Scrapper Records

• 2004: Good To Finally Know - Scrapper Records

• 2006: Everything Is One- Scrapper Records

• 2008: Iron Sea and the Cavalry- Scrapper Records

Equipment

Instruments

• Modulus Bass

• 1979 Fender Telecaster

• 1980 Gibson 335 electric guitar

• 1930's National Resonator

• 1940 Gibson 135 Jazz Box

• Collings D-1 acoustics

• Noise Iconoclast Amplifier

Effects

• Boss TU2 Chromatic Tuner

• Fulltone Clyde Wah Deluxe

• Fulltone OCD Overdrive

• Boss Analog Delay