Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps

Janis Joplin
Nancy Wilson
Stevie Nicks
Belinda Carlisle
Debbie Harry
Patti Smith

Maria Brink

Can't stand her music; but I kinda like her pictures.  ;^)

There are a few female vocalist which kind of stand out from the crowd, one of them is Diamanda Galas.  As to interpretation of Female vocalist giving me goose bumps, if that means literally making the hairs on my back stand up then it must be Tina Turner with 'River Deep Mountain Wide'.  The only time I experience hair standing on my back is just a few times when I was a boy growing into adolescence.  With that particular song it was first the song itself, when I heard it for the first time, the melody was so stunning which basically comes in two parts and then those vocals giving it justice.  Only later on I learned it was made by that famous producer Phil Spector who made her repeat the song zealion times until it was right.  But I must make it clear without the song Tina Turner is empty to me.  It always the music first, then the vocalist and lyrics.

Brandi Carlile

Carrie Newcomer

Another new-for-me discovery, Eileen Rose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL4e6KK5kfo

And Margo Timmins has released her own album that showcases her voice more prominently than most Cowboy Junkies efforts:

https://www.soundike.com/r2134372-margo-timmins-margos-corner-ty-tyrfu-sessions-vol-1-mp3-download.h...

Rhiannon Giddens

Rosanne Barr but not the good kind of goose bumps

Yoko Ono, if you like the sound of fingernails on a chalk board. 

Stargazer3, I didn't look at it from that angle, going way back in time.

In that category I would say Dusty Springfield:. I actually got shivers up my neck just now listening to this one! It's been too long since I put this CD in my player.

 

Linda Ronstadt.

Emmylou Harris. 

Love them both! In my top 10.

Just to name a few...

Etta James - I’d Rather go blind - LIve and Ready
Terez Motcalm - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Voodo
Karin Bergquist (Over the Rhine) - Rave On - The Long Surrender
Sidsel Endresen, Bugge Wesseltoft - I Think It’s Going To Rain Today - Night Song
Patty Griffin (Emmylou Harris) - Trapeze - Children Running Through
Alex Hepburn - Pain Is - Together Alone
Maria Bethânia - Dindi - My Backyard
Buika - Mi niña Lola- Mi niña Lola
Ane Brun - Gilian - Changing Of The Seasons
Dolly Parton (Linda Maria Ronstadt , Emmylou Harris) - After the Goldrush - Trio
Abigail Lapell -  Sewage - Stolen Time

The Bump Sisters.

Jennifer Hudson- And I am telling you I'm not going

A couple come to mind besides many of the afore mentioned. Top recording quality on CD.  Vienna Teng comes across profoundly engaging on the only one unique album of hers: 'Dreaming Through the Noise '(turn off lights, relax), Anne Lennox with cathartic personal project entitled: BARE. Each song hangs together like the old LP album days. Progressive story. Jane Monheit's Surrender finally breaks out of the over done stylized to reveal a natural sweetness unlike any other. Three excellent musical experiences worth making time for. Time is short 

Margo Timmins/Sweet Jane & quite a few other songs.

Suzanne Vega/ the Solitude Standing CD

Linda Ronstadt/ Carmelita, Blue Bayou, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues and quite a few other songs

Many of the tracks from Emmy Lou Harris/ the Wrecking Ball CD, in particular, her cover of Steve Earle's Goodbye

A lot of the tracks off of Lucinda Williams/Essence

To my above list, I would add Rebecca Pidgeon, Spanish Harlem, off of the Chesky Raven CD.

The Sundays cover of Wild Horses has gave me goose bumps before.

Norah Jones- "Nightingale"

 Beth Hart