Your Go to CD to Impress


Friends come over and inquire why you would spend so much money on a stereo system, what is the CD you load up? For me,

Patricia Barber  ---Café Blue

Dead Can Dance-Into the Labyrinth


styxtrekr
Second,

Getz-Gilberto- any format and this one should be in everyone's collection!!!
+1 to wgutz for the Lindsey Sterling mention. She's awesome! Here are mine....

Andreas Vollenweider - Book of Roses, first three tracks
Dire Straits - Private Investigations
Neil Young - A Man Needs a Maid, Live at Massey Hall
Diana Krall - A Case of You, Live in Paris
Dave Brubeck - Take Five (of course)
David Gray - Please Forgive Me, White Ladder
Patricia Barber - Anything from Cafe Blue or Live in Paris
In keeping with the spirit of the OP's question, I'm eliminating all SACDs (such as Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me"), DVD-As and other specialized discs (except XRCD which is a standard CD). One of many possible great demo CDs is: "Mapleshade's Music Festival". Some have mentioned Patricia Barber but the exaggerated echo applied to her voice eliminates these otherwise excellent recordings, IMHO.