Thelma Cooper

Only the stuffiest, most puritanical of listeners wouldn't want to spend an evening with the likes of Thelma "Baby Doll" Cooper, Daisy Mae Diggs, and the Hep Cats. This combination has been offered to blues collectors in both the vinyl and compact-disc era on the Krazy Kat and Collectables labels, respectively. Cooper -- who might also have been someone else named Cooper, a section of the plot to be revealed later -- and Diggs were actually rivals, and it was the Hep Cats and similar great studio bands that provided the link between the two, that and Gotham Records producer Ir...