Artist profile: Frantic Fay Thomas (?-1978)

Little is known about Fay whose recording career was just three sessions in three years. The few points I share here I credit to Marv Goldberg‘s wonderful and determined research. There only appears to be one interview published in which Fay says she had been performing since 1940. Why Frantic? Take a list to her blistering track below! Despite seeming to perform continuously (albeit with gaps) there is no obituary to shed any further light or recognise her contribution to the genre. All we can do is listen and wonder, in every sense of the word…