The Weepies

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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.”

1	World Spins Madly On full track	2,179
2	Gotta Have You	1,616
3	Take It From Me	1,034
4	Nobody Knows Me At All	944
5	All This Beauty	927
6	Stars	750
7	Not Your Year	718
8	Riga Girls	682
9	Suicide Blonde	670
10	Painting By Chagall full track	646
11	Hideaway	617
12	Can't Go Back Now	588
13	Antarctica	513
14	Little Bird	512
15	Orbiting	468

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Happiness
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lindseygop wrote:
Sunday evening

I love them. They are so cute.

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angelinblue wrote:
Sunday afternoon

nice...

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moyado wrote:
Sunday morning

cute

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elsimondark wrote:
12 days ago

<3

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aakac wrote:
13 days ago

you're the only band i can listen to over and over and over and over again

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stevieg89 wrote:
15 days ago

I thought they'd never top Say I Am You....but thank god I was wrong!!!

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alieninthecity wrote:
24 days ago

They're the most perfect band ever. @_@

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beckybartkowski wrote:
26 days ago

If you like the Weepies, give Ray Lamontagne a listen! http://www.amazon.com/Gossip-Grain-Ray-LaMontagne/dp/B001AX9DT0/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1213128532&sr=1-18

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alyssa87 wrote:
28 days ago

mmm....gotta have you :) I love it- I could listen to her voice all day!

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blabbers wrote:
28 days ago

and the world spins madly on.

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jukaminaga wrote:
last month

i don't give a damn, i'm happy as a clam, nobody knows me at all *-*

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kmacmommyof6 wrote:
last month

:)

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blabbers wrote:
last month

:D

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B14Pr4d0 wrote:
last month

amo³³³³ <3

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realbueno wrote:
last month

solo works are great too [2]

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Hightwig wrote:
last month

The new album is really great!

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cjshamrock wrote:
last month

Awesome band. Check out their solo works too, good stuff

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antialias02 wrote:
last month

I read an interview with Steve that talked about a late spring / early summer tour that fell through for some reason or another (it was really vague). But, it did mention that a tour is in the works, likely for fall. Completely and totally non-official, but I think we can expect something around September.

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takethisride wrote:
June 2008

anyone know anything about plans to tour? its about time....

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ChloeGirldie wrote:
June 2008

The Weepies own my soul...I am obsessed.

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