Best female vocals on CD

What a relief!! My taste in music is validated after all. It seems nobody in the general public recognizes my best tunes. This was a fun thread to cruise, many of my favorites have been mentioned repeatedly. Fortunately, I do have a couple of additions for your consideration:

Susan Werner..."Time Between Trains" and "Last of the Good Straight Girls" very fine recordings and a excellent voice. She is also great live, catch her for a wonderful envening.

Allison Krauss..."Forget About It" among others; often with the bluegrass band Union Station. Beautifully sweet, liquid vocals,and a damn fine fiddle player, too!

Kelly Flynt of Dave's True Story..."Sex without Bodies"; in the finest smoky lounge singer tradition ala Holly Cole or Sara K. And an amazing Chesky recording to boot.

So, there...cost you well under a hundred bucks, Enjoy.

Best regards

Very "Chesky" in your tastes @ Bart!
Also add Rebecca Pidgeon "Fhear a Bhata"

It will be interesting to summarize this thread to find out who got the most vote in these more than 300 openions.

Diane Schuur has been one of my favorites. A couple of her CDs are super. I just a couple weeks ago discovered Stacy Kent and plan to buy all of her CDs this weekend.

What a great list, however I didn't see my favorite and it's a real shame if nobody thought to mention ANITA BAKER! listen to The Songstress album. What a voice!