New Year’s Eve will bring a look back at those we’ve lost this past year. 2021 was another year of COVID-19 with a couple of variants slipping into and out of the world. We wait patiently, for the most part, for vaccines and adult behavior to work. Unfortunately, there is a selfishness about our species that cannot be denied. This year’s losses have no boundaries musically: everyone from Biz Markie to Stephen Sondheim, Vicente Fernandez to Nanci Griffith, Lloyd Price to Stonewall Jackson. Performers of our lifetime. We go into 2022 having hope. Join Dave Stroud for a musical look back.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	The Monkees	Some of Shelly's Blues	Listen to the Band Disc 4
2	The Marvelettes	Don't Mess With Bill	Malt Shop Memories: All I Have To Do Is Dream (Disc 2)
3	Teddy Bears	To Know Him Is to Love Him	Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 1
4	The Everly Brothers	So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)	Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. Disc 1
5	Jimmie Rodgers	Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again	40 All-Time Favorites [Disc 1]
6	Gerry & The Pacemakers	Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying	The Classic 60's Collection: 1964
7	Lloyd Price	Just Because	Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
8	B.J. Thomas	Hooked On A Feeling	20 Greatest Hits
9	Nanci Griffith	Late Night Grande Hotel	Late Night Grande Hotel
10	Rusty Young	Down Home	Waitin' For The Sun
11	Aretha Franklin	Chain Of Fools (Roger Hawkins)	Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [Disc 1]
12	Maddox Brothers and Rose	Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die	1950-1951 (Warped 5076F)
13	Joe Maphis & Rose Lee	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
14	Dan Crary, Byron Berline & John Hickman	Old Time Medley	Chambergrass
15	J.D. Crowe & The New South	Old Home Place	Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics
16	The Osborne Brothers	Rocky Top	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
17	Tom T. Hall	Ballad of Forty Dollars	The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
18	Stonewall Jackson	I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water (Columbia 1964)	Singles
19	Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson	Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys(Ed Bruce)	RCA Country Legends [Disc 2]
20	Taj Mahal	Cakewalk Into Town (Howard Johnson on Tuba)	Putumayo Presents: American Blues
21	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen	Lost In The Ozone	Lost In The Ozone
22	Gram Parsons	Ooh Las Vegas (DRUMMER – RONNIE TUTT)	G.P. / Grievous Angel
23	The Kingsmen	Louie, Louie	Louie Louie
24	The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Women	Forty Licks [Disc 1]
25	ZZ Top	Gimme All Your Lovin'	Greatest Hits
26	Johnny Ventura	Filete	Presentando a.. Mi Nuevo Cosecha
27	Vicente Fernandez	Volver Volver	The Rose & The Briar
28	Johnny Pacheco	El Esencia Del Guaguanco	Ritmo Caliente – Salsa Greats
29	The Gap Band	Oops Upside Your Head (I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up An	Pure Disco
30	Dave Frishberg	Van Lingle Mungo	Baseball's Greatest Hits
31	Jill Corey	Love Me to Pieces	Your Hit Parade – The '50s
32	The McGuire Sisters	Sincerely	The Sisters Anthology [Disc 2]
33	Claude Bolling	It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing	Bolling Plays Ellington, Vol. 1
34	The Tokens	The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)	Wimoweh!!! – The Best Of The Tokens
35	Jay & The Americans	Cara Mia	Come A Little Bit Closer – The Best of Jay and The Americans
36	The Supremes	When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through (Mary Wilson)	Gold Disc 1
37	Lee "Scratch" Perry	I Am the Upsetter	Trojan Reggae
38	Biz Markie	Just a Friend	Biz's Baddest Beats: The Best of Biz Markie
39	Original Cast	Tonight	Ultimate Broadway [Disc 1]
40	Chuck E. Weiss	Anthem for Old Souls	Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
41	Pat Martino	Just Friends	Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar [Disc 3]
42	Peter, Paul and Mary	Have You Been to Jail for Justice?	In These Times
43	Patrick Sky	Many A Mile	Best Of The Troubadours
44	Chick Corea and Return to Forever	Captain Marvel	Light as a Feather (Disc 1)
45	New York Dolls	Puss 'n' Boots	Sophisticated Boom Boom: The Shadow Morton Story
46	The Ramones	Baby, I Love You	End of the Century