Gregg Foreman, the Delta 72 founder and Cat Power collaborator, dead at 53

Gregg Foreman, the laminitis of the influential blues-punk set the Delta 72 and a longtime collaborator with Cat Power and different acts, has died. He was 53.

News of Foreman’s decease connected Tuesday was confirmed by Cat Power’s label, Matador Records. No origin of decease was given.

Foreman, calved successful Philadelphia, formed the Delta 72 successful Washington, D.C., successful the mid-’90s, putting a soulfully-scuzzy blues twist connected the city’s post-hardcore dependable of the era. Foreman was a distinctly charismatic frontman, pairing the flamboyant signifier beingness of his beloved ‘60s and ‘70s R&B acts with the live-wire hostility of punk. The set released 3 albums earlier dissolving successful 2001.

For 2 decades, helium played successful Cat Power’s backing ensemble, the Dirty Delta Blues band, and became the project’s philharmonic director. He besides collaborated with Pink Mountaintops, Suicide’s Alan Vega and Martin Rev, the Gossip, Lydia Lunch and Death Valley Girls, on with singer-songwriters Lucinda Williams and Linda Perry.

Outside of his live-band career, Foreman was a prolific DJ and a profoundly knowledgeable euphony journalist. He astir precocious played connected Cat Power’s “Redux,” January’s three-song EP celebrating the 20th day of the band’s beloved LP “The Greatest.”

Music and taste figures similar manager Jim Jarmusch, Kid Congo Powers, and Cold Cave’s Wesley Eisold mourned Foreman’s decease connected societal media. Eisold wrote connected Instagram that “Like others, helium bounced successful and retired of our lives and changed each 1 helium visited. For amended oregon for worse, helium lived a beingness that others lone assertion to person lived and helium was 1 of one. His emotion for euphony was arsenic genuine arsenic the symptom helium harbored.”