Ry Cooder's guitar makes the most of "Dirty Life & Times," another of Zevon's trademark rake's-progress tales; Bruce Springsteen turns in spirited backing vocals and a guitar solo on "Disorder in the House"; and "Prison Grove," sung with Jackson Browne, Billy Bob Thornton, T-Bone Burnett, and others, is a spooky, evocative blues.
The atmosphere around the ring is spirited, drawing hundreds of vocal gamblers, many of whom, with their black leather jackets, scars and tattoos, look downright scary.
Blawan's original Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage is a psychotic, six-minute stamp through disturbia and the four males of Dublin's Girl Band managed to eke out almost two extra minutes, using that time and their canny production values to flesh out and reanimate bare bones, breathing life through a spirited reiteration of the vocal hook.
But the fragment Prokofiev completed is graceful and light-spirited, with some lovely vocal writing.
Every mountebank needs a foil, and Kid Creole's are the Coconuts, three blond bombshells whose spirited dancing and background vocals provided the female perspective in rogues' tales like "No Casual Sex".
A spirited display by Baghdatis earned the vocal backing of large sections of the crowd during a pulsating battle that lasted three hours and 15 minutes but Djokovic regained his cool, and his form, to progress to the second week.
I have two children, both of whom are wonderful and spirited and independent and active -- and vocal.
His impassioned vocals are backed by a spirited jazz band.
The program also included two vocal works — "Miranda's Lament" (1997), a spirited Shakespeare setting (from "The Tempest"), and "Changing Light" (2002), a sweetly chromatic rendering of a poetic prayer by Rabbi Jules Harlow — in clear, powerfully projected performances by the soprano Tony Arnold.
He was subtler, but no less spirited, on an R & B ballad called "The Hope," featuring vocals by Jean Baylor, his wife.
