Cookie & His Cupcakes has been played on NTS shows including Death Is Not The End, with Mathilda first played on 1 November 2020.

Cookie an the Cupcakes originally started as The Boogie Ramblers, led by Shelton Dunaway. Huey "Cookie" Thierry (Roanoke, Louisiana, August 16, 1936 – September 23, 1997, Lake Charles, Louisiana) joined the band in 1952, and shared lead vocals and tenor sax with Dunaway. Other original members were Sidney "Hot Rod" Reynaud (tenor sax), Marshall Laday (or LeDee) (guitar), Ernest Jacobs (piano), Joe "Blue" Landry (bass) and Ivory Jackson (drums). The band was based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

They started playing in 1953…