"It was like a moving version of Madame Tussaud's.
By the time the bride serenaded the bridegroom with a moving version of "At Last," she had slipped on a pair of silver lamé Converse low-tops.
In the film, Kris Kristofferson performs one of Mr. Nelson's holiday songs, "Pretty Paper," and Mr. Nelson's character sings a moving version of "Amazing Grace".
Backed by the Gift Band (who include her husband Martin Carthy, daughter Eliza, and nieces and nephews), she performed a moving version of the traditional song Bunch of Thyme.
The CD includes collaborations with Joe Strummer, Carl Perkins, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Nick Cave and, in a moving version of the Cat Stevens song "Father and Son," Fiona Apple.
"In my mind, I sing like Smokey Robinson," he announced before performing a moving version of "A Change Is Gonna Come," made famous by another 60's soul great, Sam Cooke.
But on Wednesday, she opened the show with a moving version of Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep Mountain High," and later came back with a restrained but mature rendition of the Leona Lewis hit "Bleeding Love".
Like a true showman, he turned the situation around to his advantage by returning, without his band, to the piano, to perform a moving version of "The House", a heartfelt song about losing his father.
Using nothing more than mics, pedal-controlled looping devices and his voice, he conjured beats, brimstone preachers, gospel choirs and explosive electro, ending unexpectedly with a moving version of Strawberry Fields Forever.
The display's the thing here, sporting a "nano-photonic" design that looks a bit like a moving version of those holographic baseball cards we had as kids.
