Jeffrey Runnings, the vocalist, bassist, and founding father of indie band For Towards, has died. Unbiased Mission Data confirmed he handed away on Mar. 3 after a battle with Stage 4 most cancers. He was 61.
Unbiased Mission Data founder and co-owner Bruce Licher shared an announcement with Pitchfork:
Jeffrey Runnings was not solely a great buddy and an excellent musician and songwriter, however somebody whose life revolved round music. Jeff was all the time enthusiastically sharing music that he thought his associates would take pleasure in, and for years he would ship me handwritten letters typically accompanied by information he thought I ought to have, or a mixtape he’d made that he thought I ought to hear. Even now, in the course of the second decade of the twenty first Century, when he despatched me his new album to listen to for the primary time, it was on a cassette tape that he mailed by way of the submit. I couldn’t have requested for something extra particular. His distinctive voice will probably be missed on so many ranges.
Jeffrey Runnings was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1963. In 1984, he fashioned For Towards, initially enjoying the keyboard. After lineup adjustments, the band’s core turned Runnings on vocals and bass, Harry Dingman III on guitar, and Gregory Hill on drums. Their debut album Echelons arrived in 1987, they usually went on to launch seven extra studio LPs, the final of which was 2009’s By no means Been.
Final 12 months, Runnings recorded a solo album referred to as Piqued. It’s slated for launch later this 12 months.
