Best female vocal recording on CD?


i am a sucker for great warm rich smooth female vocalists, especially on tube gear and speakers that image well. but i am almost always faced with a great voice/song but a sonically inferior recording (examples too numerous to list) or a great recording of a mediocre voice.  rickie lee jones (pop pop) comes to mind- fab recording, but come on lets be honest about her voice. however, i will almost always pick great recordings and leave the bad recordings for the car.

 so i am asking for what you use as a reference female vocal recording/track. right now i come back tp bonnie raitt "you cant make me love you" from luck of the draw.  big, warm, strong voice. not a perfect recording. but hmmmm that voice.

my only requirement is it has to be on CD. and we all know of great vinyl that did not translate into great CDs.  so help me out here, what should be my next music purchase 
meiatflask
Been enjoying Katie Melua lately, especially the Piece by Piece CD.

Holy Cole too.

Dave

Emmylou Harris: Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems (4CD)

4 cds for under $30. If there isn’t something in this set that reaches deep inside, you have no soul. Start with disc 2 if you’re not familiar with Emmylou.

Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent, is very good

The Burns Sisters - Wild Bouquet, folk/rock with beautiful voices and harmonies. Start with this one of their cds for sound quality.

I would also highly recommend the late Shirley Horn as well as Melody Gardot.

The Burn Sisters recommendation made me think of the Roaches an  Irish sister trio from NJ. Great harmonies with some really quirky lyrics.
There are plenty of 'audiophile oriented' boring artists:
Diana Krall
Patricia Barber
Norah Jones,

But there others you might not know with excellent recording and performing qualities:

LHasa De Sela
Melody Gardot
Don't pass on 4AD titles such as This Mortal Coil and Cockteau Twins