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All Smiles released their full length album Ten Readings of a Warning in April and it hasn't gotten the hype it really deserves. My hope is that the East Coast tour will perk up some more ears and get people chatting. For folks in my area, All Smiles will be at Johnny Brenda's on Halloween night. The venue is pretty cool but it's a tight space up in the show area so get there early and stay cool.

Jim Fairchild created the album without any backing from a label. He's an incredible musician, storyteller, and artist. I'm telling you right now YOU WILL LOVE his skills on the piano, I get all googly eyed when it comes to the keys.

The record was almost entirely created on 8-track, recorded in living rooms up and down the West Coast. "It was a no-budget record," says Jim. "There wasn't any backing yet. I just set up whatever gear I had in the kitchen of our borrowed house in Portland, and our living room in Los Angeles. It sounds like the places it was recorded in. You can hear the walls, and the floors, and the ceilings, and you can hear the cars, and the trees, and the guys selling drugs outside."

Ten Readings of a Warning was perfectly mixed by Brian Deck (Iron and Wine, Modest Mouse).

Listen:
All Smiles - "The Velvetest Balloon" (mp3)

Buy the music!

Tour Dates
23 Oct 2007 The Pike Room Pontiac, Michigan
24 Oct 2007 Grog Shop Cleveland, Ohio
26 Oct 2007 Mohawk Place Buffalo, New York
27 Oct 2007 T.T. The Bear's Boston, Massachusetts
29 Oct 2007 Mercury Lounge New York, New York
30 Oct 2007 Southpaw Brooklyn, New York
31 Oct 2007 Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1 Nov 2007 Black Cat Washington, DC, Washington DC
3 Nov 2007 Duke Coffeehouse Duke University Durham, North Carolina
4 Nov 2007 Grey Eagle Asheville, North Carolina
5 Nov 2007 New Brookland Tavern West Columbia, South Carolina
6 Nov 2007 Cafe Eleven St. Augustine, Florida
7 Nov 2007 The Social Orlando, Florida
8 Nov 2007 Club Downunder Tallahassee, Florida
9 Nov 2007 Bottletree Cafe Birmingham, Alabama
10 Nov 2007 The Earl Atlanta, Georgia
12 Nov 2007 Exit/In Nashville, Tennessee
13 Nov 2007 Southgate House Newport, Kentucky
14 Nov 2007 Martyr's Chicago, IL w/ Ed Grey and Kasper Hauser

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