Jim Fairchild's first solo album, "Ten Readings of a Warning", was released in April 2007 on Dangerbird Records, under the name All Smiles. A second All Smiles album, "Oh for the Getting and Not Letting Go", was released on June 30, 2009. In 2010, he was selected to lead a project at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and in 2011 he released his third All Smiles album, "Staylow and Mighty". Fairchild has also played for the bands Giant Sand, Great Northern, Lackthereof and Modest Mouse, having first played guitar with the latter in 2005.