Jeffrey Runnings, the vocalist, bassist, and founding father of indie band For Towards, has died. Impartial Mission Information confirmed he handed away on Mar. 3 after a battle with Stage 4 most cancers. He was 61.
Impartial Mission Information founder and co-owner Bruce Licher shared an announcement with Pitchfork:
Jeffrey Runnings was not solely a superb 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 get pleasure from, and for years he would ship me handwritten letters usually 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 publish. I couldn’t have requested for something extra particular. His distinctive voice shall be missed on so many ranges.
Jeffrey Runnings was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1963. In 1984, he fashioned For Towards, initially taking part in the keyboard. After lineup modifications, the band’s core grew to become Runnings on vocals and bass, Harry Dingman III on guitar, and Gregory Hill on drums. Their debut album Echelons arrived in 1987, and so they went on to launch seven extra studio LPs, the final of which was 2009’s By no means Been.
Final yr, Runnings recorded a solo album known as Piqued. It’s slated for launch later this yr.