Most underrated female recording artists..

The list is large, but here are a few of my favorites:

Linda Thompson - (ex of Richard Thompson) Dreams Fly Away

Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession

Allison Russell - (no kin) with Quantic- Look Around the Corner

Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball

Dusty Springfield- Dusty in Memphis

Nanci Griffith- The Complete MCA Studio Recordings

Karla Bonoff- All My Life: the best of

Patty Griffin- Servant of Love

That’s a good start….

There are so many you can't count them. Many made a small living putting out a few albums and singing at coffee houses. Here's a few of my favorites that are undervalued:

Bonnie Koloc - when she was a young a voice that could soar from one note to another effortlessly.

Priscilla Herdman - a voice like an angel. Her version of 'And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' an anti war song is chilling due to the contrast of the words and her angelic voice.

Jo Ann Kelly - the best white blues singer I've heard. She actually sounds black.

June Tabor - awesome sense of timing

Mary McCaslin - small voice that just grows on you. Wrote songs that bare her soul.

Sandy Denny - well known but I believe under rated both as a brilliant singer and song writer. 

Linda Ronstadt.

She’s the only one who can sing in EVERY genre, very successfully, and has. I don’t know of any other female singer who has done what she’s done. Opera, classical, pop, country, blue grass, big band, jazz, new age.

+ 1 Kate Bush

Natalie Merchant - MTV Live....and any of her 10,000 Maniacs work

Check out Mary Black — one of Ireland’s finest. Her albums “Babes in the Woods” and “New Frontiers” are outstanding.