Jeff Tweedy listens to a lot of music. In fact, he published a book about all the music he loves in 2023: World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music. He even runs a couple music festivals, Sky Blue Sky and Solid Sound, where he can showcase the new music that he loves. Geese’s Cameron Winter was supposed to play the former, but had to drop out because of scheduling conflicts. Both he and Tweedy showed up on our Best Songs of 2025 list—Tweedy for “Enough” and Winter for “Drinking Age” (and for Geese’s “Au Pays du Cocaine” and “Long Island City Here I Come,” but who’s counting?)—and the latter seems to be a fan of the former. As a Valentine’s Day gift to his wife Susie, Tweedy shared a cover of Winter’s “Love Takes Miles,” citing that “love ain’t so bad, especially right now. It could be worse, and it often is.”
Writing on his Substack, Starship Casual, Tweedy said:
“I picked this song, ‘Love Takes Miles’ by Cameron Winter, for Susie. It seems very true to me about how love kind of actually works. I think you can feel the immediate feeling of love over and over and over again. But the real love takes a lot of miles, a lot of time. That’s the kind of love that makes ground harder under your feet and colors stronger. It’s just not the same thing as puppy love.
It’s a poignant song for such a young person to put out into the world. I hope you check out the rest of Cameron’s songs, and Geese. A lot of people have opinions about them. I’ll just say what Susie said when she saw Geese on Saturday Night Live, that she would have loved to have booked them at Lounge Ax. They totally would have fit in at Lounge Ax.”
Check out Tweedy’s cover here.
