Her voice was equally suited to the extreme highs and lows that lay in this foundation material, her sonic stage stripped to bare voice and piano (although she's also enjoyed successful collaborations with John Zorn, Iannis Xenakis and John Paul Jones).
The classic "John Henry" was missing the percussive touches from Diehl on record, but the arrangement retained a spare power as McLorin Salvant squared off with the driving rhythm section to a striking finish with the microphone at her waist, which allowed her bare voice to arc over the crowd with the intimacy of an old 78 record.
During a bare voice-and-piano rendition of "Soliloquy" from "Carousel" that went in and out of focus, Mr. Mitchell slipped into the character of Billy Bigelow (a role he has yet to play) as he imagines impending parenthood.
A bare voice-and-piano version of Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," recorded in 1970 with the composer at the piano, anticipates the stripped-down sound of her 2009 album, "Love Is the Answer".
He reduced the songs to their barest essentials: voice, guitar, a bit of bass, brushed drums.
His hair is greased back, his chest bare and his voice shot through with end-of-days gloom – a picture of pathos and seediness few other frontmen can touch.
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In the bare space, their voices took on burly undertones.
The leaders of the leave campaign – whose duplicity and recklessness have now been laid bare – branded the voicing of these concerns as "scaremongering".
Christmas Past (Forrest McClendon), normally depicted as gentle, ethereal and (more often than not) female, is a bald man with a booming, hostile voice, bare-chested in a golden harem-pants costume that Yul Brynner might have worn in "The King and I".
At least one cable operator now offers stand-alone, bare-bones, Internet voice service for less than $15 per month.
