Best female vocals on CD

Lisa Garrard is the voice on "Gladiator", of course and former lead vocal with Dead Can Dance....she has a couple of her own too. The SDSS sound of the film Gladiator featuring LG's voice in the theatre is the finest I have heard short of a live rendition.

Here's two. Jennifer Warnes "Famous Blue Raincoat" and, believe it or not, The Judds "Heartland". You can't go wrong with these two.

Barbara Keith. Japanese reissue of WB lp, available through Amazon. No. 2, Barbara Keith on the Stone Coyotes cd, Changing of the Guard. Also Amazon. You probably wont find these in the stores. I mentioned Eva Cassidy a long time ago and several others, and there's been a lot of repetition of her name and others. But I seem to be the only Barbara Keith fan in audiophiledom. Maybe because I'm NOT an audiophile (see nilthepill on another thread).

If you try the reissue, and you can, reverse phase.

Kristin Hall. Fancene Reed. Great stuff.

Sarah Harmer is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose style is acoustic-pop-folk-roots, with shades of Nancy Griffiths, Joni Mitchell, Natalie Merchant...
Her CD is called "You Were Here", and got raves from Rolling Stone, Billboard, and was on the TIME magazine 10-best list.
I saw her live on Friday night, and I must say her voice is a miracle!