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The Weepies: Beautiful Music Together
Deb Talan says she and Steve Tannen occasionally spend "an hour" away from each other.
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For an act named The Weepies, Deb Talan and Steve Tannen seem to be pretty cheerful, actually. The pair met in Boston four years ago at a club where Tannen was performing, and have been writing music together ever since. Their first CD, Happiness, was released in 2004.
Tannen and Talan were independent singer-songwriters and fans of each other's work before they joined forces to form The Weepies.
They recorded their latest album, Say I Am You, at their house in Pasadena, Calif. "World Spins Madly On," a track from that album, appears on the soundtrack of the recent film Friends with Money.
The Weepies will be playing tour dates around the United States through December.
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