Welcome to the New York Times podcast, you're a whole loaf of music and using criticism.

I am your host, John Caramonica.

I can't believe it's fall of 2021 and we still have to do this.

You guys remember a couple of times over the last year, I have done episodes devoted

to the legacies of musicians who have died of COVID, I had hoped this past summer when

things were looking good that we would not have to do that again.

I mean, they're plenty we did not get to, but I was hoping that as a category, that was

just something we can leave in the past.

And yet here we are, things are bad again and we are losing people again and I just

think it's important for us to stop and acknowledge that and try to celebrate some of these

lives, even though the reason we're doing so is fundamentally, it's a bad reason.

So on this week's episode, we're going to talk about three musicians who've passed

away recently.

We're going to talk about Jack Obdevaya, who was the guitarist and arranger of the

Zook band Kassav Doreen Santholeaks is going to call in to talk with me about Jacob.

We're going to talk about John Davis.

John Davis was one of the real quote unquote voices of Millie Vanilley and Gil Kaufman is

going to check in with us to talk about John and the Millie Vanilley kerfuffle of their

late 80s early 90s.

And then finally, we're going to talk about Chuckie Thompson, Chuckie was an R&B and hip-hop

producer in the 90s part of Puffs Hitman crew, did really important work for Biggie,

Mary J. Blige, Faith and Jeff Mal, AKA Chairman Mal is going to tap in with us at the end

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