In the weeks before his death he completed a run of shows with Cat Power, including a March stop at New York’s Webster Hall, and had shared that his new band was mixing and recording its first EP.
The medical examiner deferred a cause of death. Friends and collaborators took to social media to remember him; actress Juliette Lewis thanked him for his gifts, humor and kindness, and musician Wesley Eisold reflected on Foreman’s singular life and love of music. In one of his last public posts, Foreman wrote about trying to live in the present, heal, find self‑love and help others not feel alone.