"Baby Face" Leroy Foster (February 1, 1923 – May 26, 1958) was an American blues singer, drummer and guitarist, active in Chicago from the mid-1940s until the late 1950s.
[1] He was a significant figure in the development of the postwar electric Chicago blues sound, particularly as a member of the Muddy Waters band during its early years.
Records[1] and also backing Sunnyland Slim, Waters, Little Walter, and the pianist Johnny Jones before his most notable session, for the Parkway label in 1950.
One of the singles, the two-part "Rollin' and Tumblin'",[1] was notable enough to be reviewed (unusually for a down-home blues release) in the Chicago Defender by Edward Myers.
[3] The track featured only Foster's drumming and singing, Walter's harmonica, and Waters's slide guitar with hummed ensemble vocals on one side.
[9] Foster died of a heart attack in Chicago in 1958, at the age of 35; alcoholism may have been a factor leading to his early death.