The Weepies
The Weepies is an American indie pop-folk duo consisting of ex-husband and … Read Full Bio ↴The Weepies is an American indie pop-folk duo consisting of ex-husband and wife singer-songwriters Steve Tannen and Deb Talan . The pair began making music together in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2001. They finalised their divorce on New Year’s Day 2020.
In 2006, The Weepies big label debut Say I Am You came out on Nettwerk Records. After an initial hard-scrabble tour in their compact car as a duo, Deb Talan & Steve Tannen’s music appeared in more than a dozen TV shows, as well as several major motion pictures.
Their iTunes sales topped the folk charts in eight countries. Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol nominated them for a Short List Music Prize, and Mandy Moore asked them to write with her and sing on her album. They were invited to open for the Indigo Girls and invited onto the Hotel Café Tour; they played the Oxegen Festival in Ireland, the Hurricane Festival in Germany, and T in the Park in Scotland. Their MySpace player hit 2 million plays. JCPenney and Old Navy used their tunes as the theme songs for their major holiday TV campaigns.
When The Weepies returned home in 2007, they were exhausted.
“2006 was amazing. Coming off the road in 2007 should have been this blissed-out time with so much to celebrate, but it was totally depressing. Our rented shack in the California hills was cold, it had a leaky roof and there were mice living in it. Our electric guitar had been destroyed on the last plane flight of the year. We hadn’t seen most of our close friends in months.”
“We were empty,” says Talan. “We both felt dark after being in the bright lights for a year. We were looking to reconnect with what moved us about music in the first place. We needed to hide out and write.”
Hideaway was the result of their year-long struggle to get tapped in again, released in 2008. Another homemade gem, Hideaway is a darker companion to their first album, with 14 new tunes ranging from the upbeat title track to the jangly rock of Not Dead Yet to gorgeously arranged meditations like How You Survived the War and Little Bird.
As with most of The Weepies’ music, there is a happy ending to all the struggle: Deb and Steve were married in 2007, and they had a baby boy, Theo, in October.
The Weepies sound on Hideaway remains rooted in their unique writing and unusual harmonies. Their distinctive production was filled out again by bass player and guitarist Whynot Jansveld, guitarist Meghan Toohey and drummer Frank Lenz. Additional musicians on this album include string player Oliver Kraus, keyboardist John Deley, guitarist Steve Walsh, and horn player/keyboardist Brad Gordon.
The Weepies' fourth full-length album, Be My Thrill, was released in August 2010.
In 2006, The Weepies big label debut Say I Am You came out on Nettwerk Records. After an initial hard-scrabble tour in their compact car as a duo, Deb Talan & Steve Tannen’s music appeared in more than a dozen TV shows, as well as several major motion pictures.
Their iTunes sales topped the folk charts in eight countries. Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol nominated them for a Short List Music Prize, and Mandy Moore asked them to write with her and sing on her album. They were invited to open for the Indigo Girls and invited onto the Hotel Café Tour; they played the Oxegen Festival in Ireland, the Hurricane Festival in Germany, and T in the Park in Scotland. Their MySpace player hit 2 million plays. JCPenney and Old Navy used their tunes as the theme songs for their major holiday TV campaigns.
When The Weepies returned home in 2007, they were exhausted.
“2006 was amazing. Coming off the road in 2007 should have been this blissed-out time with so much to celebrate, but it was totally depressing. Our rented shack in the California hills was cold, it had a leaky roof and there were mice living in it. Our electric guitar had been destroyed on the last plane flight of the year. We hadn’t seen most of our close friends in months.”
“We were empty,” says Talan. “We both felt dark after being in the bright lights for a year. We were looking to reconnect with what moved us about music in the first place. We needed to hide out and write.”
Hideaway was the result of their year-long struggle to get tapped in again, released in 2008. Another homemade gem, Hideaway is a darker companion to their first album, with 14 new tunes ranging from the upbeat title track to the jangly rock of Not Dead Yet to gorgeously arranged meditations like How You Survived the War and Little Bird.
As with most of The Weepies’ music, there is a happy ending to all the struggle: Deb and Steve were married in 2007, and they had a baby boy, Theo, in October.
The Weepies sound on Hideaway remains rooted in their unique writing and unusual harmonies. Their distinctive production was filled out again by bass player and guitarist Whynot Jansveld, guitarist Meghan Toohey and drummer Frank Lenz. Additional musicians on this album include string player Oliver Kraus, keyboardist John Deley, guitarist Steve Walsh, and horn player/keyboardist Brad Gordon.
The Weepies' fourth full-length album, Be My Thrill, was released in August 2010.
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The Weepies Lyrics
01. Take It From Me What can i compare you to, a favorite pair of…
02. Gotta Have You Gray, quiet and tired and mean Picking at a worried seam I…
03. World Spins Madly On Woke up and wished that I was dead, with an…
05. Riga Girls Are your friends really your friends? Are you still…
08. Nobody Knows Me At All When i was a child, everbody smiled, nobody knows me…
09. Not Your Year Scattered shadows on a wall, you watch long light fall.…
10. Living In Twilight You look darkly on the day With memories to light your…
12 How Do You Get High_ No money, no friends You just passed the end How do you…
13. Slow Pony Home It's the second September I have known you. Four…
2x17 World Spins Madly On Woke up and wished that I was dead, with an…
A Painting By Chagall Thunder rumbles in the distance, a quiet intensity. I…
Add My Effort Well I know that life is hard, You make it all…
All Good Things Not sure where to go Everybody I know says I'm too…
All That I Want Out in the harbor The ships come in, it's Christmastime Th…
All This Beauty [Chorus] All this beauty You might have to close your eyes A…
Antarctica Left behind everything I knew All the colors were bone ligh…
Be My Honeypie Dance with me darling, The night is falling You never answe…
Be My Thrill Be my thrill My little white pill My unpaid bill The one …
Big Strong Girl It's not now or never. It's not black, and it's not…
Boys Who Want To Be Girls Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by I…
Brand New Pair of Wings Rip smart as a heart attack I got a brand new…
Can't Go Back Now Yesterday, when you were young, Everything you needed done …
City Wide Rodeo Citywide rodeo, you set on the stage, where all the…
Comfort When everyone has gone to sleep and you are wide…
Crooked Smile You can't get up 'Cause you've been down and you are…
Crooked Smile mixMB3 You can't get up 'Cause you've been down and you are…
Crooked smiles You can't get up 'Cause you've been down and you are…
Dating a Porn Star Dating a porn star, it isn't all roses She leaves you…
Does Not Bear Repeating Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh This is not…
Early Morning Riser Head on my pillow Last time I checked, last thing I…
Empty Your Hands 16 balloons against the blue They're red, they're red like …
Ever Said Goodbye You were a gypsy, I was one too I only was…
Fancy Things You will meet him on a train You will meet him…
Gotta Have You Gray, quiet and tired and mean Picking at a worried seam I…
Happiness Friday 13, lights go red, green, in a coffee shop I'm…
Hard to Please Maybe if you came about Maybe if you turned this ship…
Hideaway Take the sky for example, a canvas of a billion…
Hope Tomorrow Where we live spring comes early Trees in bloom when the…
How Do You Get High? No money, no friends You just passed the end How do you…
How Will He Find Me If I don't stand out like a star among the…
How You Survived the War You never change your mind once it's made up Unless it's…
Hummingbird [Chorus] Always been like a hummingbird And I can't keep sti…
I Was Made for Sunny Days I went to the market, Though it was threatening rain. I was…
Jolene It always rained around you We tried to go inside and…
Just Blue Red dirt fields in Tennesee Red dirt mud, slow wet feet Re…
Keep It There Got three dollars burning in my pocket, I know I…
Learning to Fly Well I started out down a dirty road, started out…
Lighting Candles Trying not to hope too hard For what I want Trying not…
Little Bird Sometimes it's hard to say Even one thing true When all ey…
Living in Twiligh You look darkly on the day, with memories to light…
Living in Twilight You look darkly on the day With memories to light your…
Living In Twilight /Original You look darkly on the day, with memories to light…
Love Doesn I watch the sun go down, I watch the sun…
M1 Old Coyote Old Coyote waits out there With his gray-brown hair and his…
M3 All Good Things Not sure where to go Everybody I know says I'm too…
Mend This is how I spent my youth Staring at the ground And…
My Honeypie Dance with me darling, The night is falling You never ans…
My Little Love My little love, my little love Where'd you come from…
Never Let You Down Yeah you're so everything I would do anything We want the sa…
No Trouble I don't need no trouble But sometimes trouble needs me I don…
Nobody Knows Me At All When i was a child, everbody smiled, nobody knows me…
Not a Lullaby This is not a lullaby, One that makes you close your…
Not Dead Yet It's hard to say what you mean to me Everyone is…
Not Your Year Scattered shadows on a wall, you watch long light fall.…
Old Coyote Old Coyote waits out there With his gray-brown hair and his…
Orbiting You named me judge the day that I was born You…
Painting By Chagall Thunder rumbles in the distance, a quiet intensity. I…
Please Speak Well of Me I've been away a year and a day You recognize love…
Red Red Rose Don't know why you do the things you do do…
Riga Girl Are your friends really your friends? Are you still…
River From the Sky Friends I had from younger days mostly have been washed away…
Rocks and Water Seven times I went down Six times I walked back I don't…
Same Changes Arms around my body Kisses on my skin I walk away I walk…
Simple Life Can i get up in the moming Put the kettle on Make…
Sirens Here lie remains of a ship that sailed to close…
Slow Pony Home It's the second September I have known you. Four…
Somebody Loved Rain turns the sand into mud Wind turns the trees into…
Speak Well Of Me I've been away a year and a day You recognize love…
Star Tangerines are hanging heavy, glowing marigolden hues. Teas…
Suicide Blonde You know the way you look makes everyone hungry You got…
Sunflower When the sky is grey Hope just hides away I'll be your…
Take It from Me What can i compare you to, a favorite pair of…
Takes so Long I don't know why, I don't know why I don't know…
Tell Your Story Walking Tell it to the judge, man. Tell it to your motherless…
The World Spins Madly On Woke up and wished that I was dead, with an…
They Lovers walk two by two, Doing things lovers do They're in lo…
They're in Love Where Am I Lovers walk two by two, Doing things lovers do They're in …
They're in Love Where Am I? Lovers walk two by two, Doing things lovers do They're in lo…
Twilight You look darkly on the day With memories to light your…
Vegas Baby Friday I can't see the use Get the hell right out…
Volunteer My lover left me, she left me too soon. I shouldn't…
When You Go Away When you go away it's like you hide the sun I…
Wild Boy If you were every wild boy and I was every…
Wish I Could Forget Do you disapprove Alright you've made your point You don't…
World Spinns Madly on Woke up and wished that I was dead, with an…