After a week of listening to Oh For The Getting And Not Letting Go by All Smiles I can only remember 2 or 3 things. The album tends to be rather monotone. Mostly due to emotionally weak vocals and the trite songwriting formula. I do like the Doo-Wop/Beach Boys feel of the choruses in I [...]

It's been a long, loooooong time since a batch of songs has grabbed me so quickly, caught me so off-guard, and made me go straight to the TDoL Command Center (i.e. my old, dilapidated laptop) to crank out some copy. Jim Fairchild has been going under the moniker All Smiles for a couple of years now. Prior to that he was playing second fiddle to Jason Lytle in that great band from that one armpit in central California. In 2007 Fairchild recorded Ten Readings of a Warning [...]