Label Nettwerk
Release Date Aug 31, 2010
Genre: Indie-Rock,Pop


1. Please Speak Well Of Me
2. When You Go Away
3. Red Red Rose
4. I Was Made For Sunny Days


5. They’re In Love, Where Am I?
6. Add My Effort
7. Be My Thrill


8. Be My Honeypie
9. Hummingbird
10. Hard to Please
11. Not A Lullaby
12. How Do You Get High?
13. Hope Tomorrow
14. Empty Your Hands

Like an earthier version of Sixpence None the Richer, the Weepies brew up a sound that's part Lilith Fair throwback, part coffeehouse folk, and part NPR-approved pop. Be My Thrill, the duo's third album, continues the same thread the Weepies have been spinning since their 2003 debut, with acoustic guitars and light boy/girl harmonies taking most of the spotlight. Deb Talan and Steve Tannen sing these songs like they're performing for their 2 year-old son; their voices are soft and casual, their melodies whimsical, the arrangements tight and textured but rarely, if ever, overpowering. The song titles alone give away the album's cheery vibe -- "I Was Made For Sunny Days," "Be My Thrill," "Be My Honeypie" -- and even the titles that sound like sad ballads ("Hard to Please," "They're in Love, Where Am I?") are played with all the sunny cheer of a CW network TV soundtrack. There are drums here, but they share their time-keeping duties with tambourines, hand claps, and other light percussion; there are electric guitars, too, but they never take the spotlight. Instead, the focus is on homespun material, the sort of folk/pop fare that could be played on acoustic instruments around a campfire, and those who liked the Weepies' past albums will find more to enjoy here. ~ Andrew Leahey

Illustrator: Deb Talan.

Photographer: Robert Sebree.

Personnel: Deb Talan, Steve Tannen (vocals, guitar, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards); Meg Toohey (electric guitar); Brad Gordon (piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron); Frank Lenz (drums, percussion).

Audio Mixer: Ryan Freeland.



Weepies - Hideaway

Label Nettwerk
Release Date Apr 22, 2008


1. Can't Go Back Now
2. Orbiting
3. Hideaway
4. Wish I Could Forget
5. All Good Things
6. Little Bird
7. Antartica
8. How You Survived the War
9. Not Dead Yet
10. Old Coyote
11. Just Blue
12. Lighting Candles
13. Takes So Long
14. All This Beauty


While there's a modern rock bent to the melodic musings of singer-songwriters Steve Tannen and Deb Talan (collectively the Weepies), there's a nostalgic tinge to the folk-tinged pop on 2008's HIDEAWAY, the follow up to the duo's fetching major label debut, SAY I AM YOU. Echoes of Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, and Joni Mitchell resound through deceptively complex, meandering tunes like "Can't Go Back Now" and "Antarctica." It's a gentle mournfulness, easy as a reflective day spent lounging on grass.


Weepies - Say I Am You


Label Nettwerk America
Release Date Mar 07, 2006
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_I_Am_You

http://marselip.blogspot.com/2008/05/weepies-hideaway.html

1. Take It From Me





2. Gotta Have You
3. World Spins Madly On
4. Citywide Rodeo
5. Riga Girls
6. Suicide Blonde
7. Painting by Chagall
8. Nobody Knows Me at All
9. Not Your Year
10. Living in Twilight
11. Stars
12. Love Doesn't Last Too Long
13. Slow Pony Home


As the Weepies, singer-songwriting duo Deb Talan and Steve Tannen perform limpid folk-flavored pop, with gorgeous harmonies and alternating lead vocals. Their second album is a subtly produced affair, with the kind of smooth, perfectly realized songs that often feature in the romantic interludes of movies and TV dramas--an example being "World Spins Madly On," which was included in the 2006 Jennifer Aniston movie FRIENDS WITH MONEY.

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 Cafe 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 is the result of their year-long struggle to get tapped in again. Another homemade gem, HIDEAWAY is a darker companion to their last 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 is once again filled out 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.
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