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Basement Songs: Al Green, “Let’s Stay Together”
Al Green gets funky in this week's Basement Songs
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Basement Songs: Porcupine Tree, “Trains”
Scott Malchus pays tribute to a beloved family member in this week's Basement Song
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Basement Songs: Marshall Crenshaw, “Someday, Someway”
Begin 2012 with a new Basement Song and some vintage Marshall Crenshaw
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Basement Songs: Frank Sinatra, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
Sinatra's rich, smooth voice conveys the love and spirit of Christmas, yet it drips with melancholy, as if he tossed back a couple of tumblers of Scotch before stepping to the mic.
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Basement Songs: Taio Cruz, “Dynamite”
Sunday morning, as rain flooded the streets and the sun refused to break through the dark clouds, Scott Malchus and his son ran the annual Santa Clarita 5K race.
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Basement Songs: Death Cab for Cutie, “No Sunlight”
I wasn’t so interested in offering my two cents. Instead, I wanted to hear my daughter's thoughts and, truthfully, just spend some alone time with her
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Basement Songs: Bruce Springsteen, “My City of Ruins”
With just his guitar and harmonica, backed by a small group of singers behind him, Springsteen delivered his "prayer for our fallen brothers and sisters." There was no bombast that night, just reverence and
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It's springtime again, and Scott Malchus is reflecting on baseball, family and the search for a cure to cystic fibrosis in this week's Basement Songs
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Scott Malchus looks back again (and again) at the Bill Murray classic Groundhog DayRead More »
Basement Songs: The Pretenders, “I’ll Stand By You”
As I did a quick dance to get around a woman standing idle on the steps at the train station, my iPod shuffled on to "I'll Stand by You" and I knew that I
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