This is Jane Pauley. Jeff Tweedy may be best known for leading the band Wilco.

This weekend the legendary singer, songwriter, author, and record producer sits down with Sunday mornings Anthony Mason.

In the last five or six years, or ten years maybe, music has become maybe as important to me as it ever has been, maybe as important as when I was a kid and it was really a consolation to spend time

with my records and feel comforted by them in a lonely kind of way.

It just seems like in times where you're really struggling, it's the best coping strategy

I think I've ever come across and I think most people feel the same way regarding music.

Yeah.

In particular, a certain type of music making feels very grounding and centering and, you know, almost as if the world makes sense.

And that is singing harmony vocals with your family.

Yeah.

You know, I'm not into being overly political, but I think that there is inherently the nature

of people singing together, the defiance of it is, feels transcendent of politics, and in a way

that's as political as you can get you know

yeah you know like there's a it's just a human scale thing like I I there's the

couple of things have been happening in the past year I'm sorry I'm rambling

as I'm like sound like I'm losing, I'm rambling. No, no, no.

It's like, I'm losing my mind, but, you know, it's, it's, you know, the AI on the horizon.

Yes.

The kind of oppressive nature, even if, I would think that even people that agree with the current political regime

Yeah, or would feel oppressed to some degree by its omnipresence in their lives.

You know, it's just not something I think most people of a certain age grew up having to think about every day.

And I don't think it's particularly good for us, you know?

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