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You're listening to Sound Opinions, and this week we're sharing some of our favorite songs of 2022. I'm Jim DeRugatus, and I'm Greg Codd.

I'll also be sharing an excerpt from my annual mixtape, but first in memoriam.

Yes, Greg, you know, every year we do our best to spotlight the musicians and music industry folks who died that we wanted to pay tribute to.

And they're not always the ones that grab the biggest headlines, people sometimes that we felt our audience should meet even if only in death.

But we can't get to everybody.

Last week we highlighted a few musicians were missing, and now it's time to wrap up 2022 and talk about a few more of the artists we lost last year.

Yeah, that's right Jim. First we want to recap who we discussed this year since we always have people asking, why didn't you talk about this person?

It's true.

Well, we did. And not everyone, but you know, we did do. It was incredibly painful, prolific, and painful year in terms of deaths in the rock and musical world.

Here's who we covered in our annual regular episodes who passed away in 2022.

Ronnie Specter, Meatloaf, director Peter Buckdonovich, blues drummer Sam Leigh, Mark Lannigan, Chris Bailey of the Saints, country music journalist and my friend, Chrissy Dickinson.

Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn, Mimi Parker of Low, Christine McVee of Fleetwood Mac and Anton Fear of the Feelies.

You know, we also have the midweek podcast episodes, and we talked about Rachel Nagy of the Detroit Cobras, R&B singer Timmy Thomas.

The artist Cynthia Plaster, Caster, William Hart of the Delphonic's Motown Songwriting Legend, Lamont Dozier, jazz musician Joey D. Francesco,

dead Kennedy's drummer, D.H. Allegro, and the Trumpicalius singer, the Pioneer, Gal Costa.

Some other notable names that we did not cover on either platform include Greek film composer, Vangelis, jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, takeoff of Migos,

Kulio, Olivia Newton-John, Naomi Judd, early rock and roll and Ronnie Hawkins, and a couple of drummers, Jet Black of the Stranglers and Dino Dinelli of the young rascals.

Of course, that's not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to leave us a message on our website at sounddependence.org with the artist we lost in 2022.

Who meant the most to you and why?

Now Greg, we're going to go in depth on just a few more artists we miss that we think deserve the spotlight.

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