[3] He played the blues around the city and teamed up with Floyd Jones, Lazy Bill Lucas, and his cousin Leroy Foster.
Beginning in the mid-1940s, this led to periodic work for Foster on Maxwell Street and in clubs in the city for over a decade.
Attending a house party, Foster was accidentally shot in the head by a woman playing with a handgun.
Pleading self-defense and impairment of judgement due to his brain injury, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was sent to a state hospital in 1975.
[3] Foster died of kidney cancer in the Illinois Insane Asylum, Chicago on November 25, 1987, aged 65.