Music Thread

Our musical theme for this weekend is Summer, hot days, beaches, travel and vacations to fun places, reminders of how it's been and how it will be again.

This weekend's music thread is about America, freedom, independence and any qualities of the country (current or not) that people celebrate.

This weekend's music thread is for sharing songs that tell Trump what we think about him and how we're cutting him loose.

This weekend's music thread is for songs about fathers, songs about good men, good deeds, personal heroes, children and of course, love.

Black Americans, joined by Americans of all races, are standing up to power and not afraid to question the status quo. So this weekend's music thread is about questioning, songs that ask who, what, why, how or where.

I had the pleasure to catch Grace Potter, Jackson Browne, Marcus King and Lucius sing Grace's song, "Each Other" on The Colbert Show last night and it struck a chord. So this weekend, it leads our music thread with the theme of humanity, people and solidarity.

This has been a shocking, tragic and emotional week. So this weekend's music thread is about justice, activism, peace, compassion and unity.

To celebrate Memorial Day Weekend, this weekend includes songs about war and protest but also songs about life, being remembered, noble and loved.

Celebrating this year's high school graduates who have had to sacrifice the American rite of graduation, this weekend's music thread is about school, youth and great days ahead.

Share your favorite songs about mothers, family, children and love as we join in a tribute to those wonderful women who brought us into the world and taught us what it means to be loved as well as those who grew up to become mothers and taught the same to their children.