The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache (full title The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache [And Other Frightening Tales...]) is the fourth studio album

Studio album

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 by American singer-songwriter

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 and musician Jason Reeves

Jason Reeves (songwriter)

Jason Reeves is an ASCAP award-winning, American singer-songwriter and musician.  He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa before locating to California in 2005, where he began a long-standing working relationship with producer Mikal Blue and singer Colbie Caillat. He co-wrote many songs with Caillat, most...

. The album was self-released in 2007 on the label abeautifularmyoftrees in the United States and later was re-released under Warner Bros. Records

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 on July 31, 2008. Recording and production for the album took place during 2006 and 2007 at the Revolver recording studio in Westlake Village, CA with producer Mikal Blue.

Background

Production forThe Magnificent Adventures Of Heartache album began in 2006 and 2007 after Reeves' first EP with Mikal Blue, Hearts Are Magnets, and around the time that Reeves was working on material with Colbie Caillat for her first album, Coco

Coco (album)

Coco is the debut album by Colbie Caillat. The album was released on July 17, 2007 in the United States, debuting at #5 on the Billboard 200 and selling 51,000 copies in the first week. The album was certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA with shipments to U.S. retailers of 2,000,000 units...

. The album was again recorded with producer Mikal Blue at his Revolver recording studio and Reeves self-released the album in 2007. He promoted the album through his myspace

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 page and sold the album at live shows as well as through online stores such as cdbaby.com

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. The release gained Reeves distinctions such as "Top Folk Album of 2007" from iTunes

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 and "No. 1 Unsigned Folk Artist" on myspace.

Reeves was eventually able to get a deal with Warner Bros. Records in 2008 that lead to the major label doing a re-release of the album. This version of the album (which included four remixed tracks) was released in stores and online on September 9, 2008.

Track listing

Personnel

Primary musicians

• Jason Reeves
  Jason Reeves (songwriter)
  Jason Reeves is an ASCAP award-winning, American singer-songwriter and musician.  He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa before locating to California in 2005, where he began a long-standing working relationship with producer Mikal Blue and singer Colbie Caillat. He co-wrote many songs with Caillat, most...
  
  – Acoustic guitar, piano, vocals
• Mikal Blue – Bass, guitars, piano, organ, background vocals (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14)

Additional musicians

• Rune Westberg – Guitars, bass, keys (tracks 1, 15)
• Jim Marr – Guitars, keyboards, programming (tracks 3, 6)
• Wendy Page – Background vocals (tracks 3, 6)
• Stuart Brawley – Piano, organ, keys, bass (tracks 8, 10)
• Tim Myers – Guitars, rhodes piano, piano (tracks 2, 9, 13, 14)
• Victor Indrizzo – Drums (tracks 2, 9, 11, 13)
• Curt Schneider – Bass, background vocals (track 5)
• Dave Morada – Bass (track 14)
• David Salinas – Drums (track 14)
• Brian MacLeod – Drums (track 5)
• David Levita – Guitars, electric flute (track 5)
• Joe Corcoran – Guitars (tracks 8, 10), bass (track 8)
• George Doering – Acoustic guitar (track 10)
• Jamie Wollam – Drums (track 10)
• Lester Nuby – Drums (track 8)
• Angel Taylor – Vocals (track 11)
• Kare Kabel Mai – Drums (tracks 1, 15)

Production personnel

• Mikal Blue – Producer, mixer
• Curt Schneider – Producer, mixer (track 5)
• Rune Westberg – Producer, mixer (tracks 1, 15)
• Stuart Brawley – Producer, mixer (tracks 8, 10)
• Joe Corcoran – Engineer
• Brian Arias – Engineer
• Jim Marr – Producer, mixer (tracks 3, 6)
• Wendy Page – Producer, mixer (tracks 3, 6)
• Joe Yannece – Masterer

Additional personnel

• Ken Krongard – Management
• Jeff Worob – Legal
• Alex Yank – Photographer
• Jessica Fick – Photographer
• Jason Reeves – Photographer, art