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DIED. Mose Tolliver, believed to be in his 80s, factory worker turned folk artist known as Mose T who became one of the leading figures in the Outsider Art, or self-taught, movement; in Montgomery, Ala. Tolliver began painting compulsively in the 1960s after an accident at a furniture factory left his legs crushed. His lyrical pieces, which he made with house paint and hung in his front yard using dental floss, first drew curious buyers, then eager galleries. The paintings--of bold, bright, sometimes grotesque women, birds, flowers, snakes and trees--are now in the permanent collections of major...
LONG ISLAND SHORES MINDY SMITH Smith gets filed under country because her songs tell little stories (the title track is about a family reunion that ends with a trip to a grave), but she's really a hybrid of folk and adult pop: equal parts Patty Griffin and Norah Jones. For lyrics, this native New Yorker leans on just a few evocative nouns, and her melodies grow in the wide open spaces between delicately played guitar chords. Her singing on the standouts You Just Forgot and Please Stay is cool and restrained--not from an absence of feeling but from...
...Leaving a game at the most crucial juncture of the contest? Has that ever happened? Maybe I’m naive to the ways of the non-fan folk, but I was raised to see the damn thing through until the end. And what if it’s one of the biggest games in college sports (that’s right, I said it) and the most prominent event at this school every year...
...folk singer as politician? That's Bob, seducing voters with anthems of moral counterrevolution. (His big hit: an anti-Dylan ballad, The Times Are Changin' Back.) Perfecting the notion of the dimple as a policy statement, Bob may win high office--if the electorate doesn't wise up to his real agenda and if Bob can stay alive. Writer-star Robbins offers mordant comedy beneath the Kumbaya melodies...
...punk-inspired fusion of rock and folk, their first hit album, 1995's El Dorado, proved that they were more than just a local conversation piece. In fact, at the time, the album turned them into the biggest-selling rock band to come out of Colombia. Their 1997 follow-up, the more polished La Pipa de la Paz, cemented this reputation and earned them rave reviews in the U.S. as well...