What are your "reference" CDs?

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (Gold Mobile Fidelity)
Frank Zappa - Yellow Shark

Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley
Allison Krauss + Union Station - Live
Jerry Douglas - Look Out For Hope
Bill Evans - Waltz For Debbie (AP SACD)
Hearts of Space
Patricia Barber - Modern Cool (MFSL SACD)
Grateful Dead - American Beauty (MFSL CD)
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Finding Forrester Soundtrack
Lux Aeterna
Gladiator Soundtrack

PS to my above list:

Ry Cooder/V.M. Bhatt - Meeting By The River
Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds - Live At Luther College

1. JJ Cale "Guitar Man"-- for male vocals.
2. Melissa Etheridge, any of first 5 CDs-- for female vocals.
3. George Thorogood "Anthology" for it's PR&T.
4. Allison Moorer "Alabama Song"-- female vocals.
5. Enigma, any of their CDs-- for the bass.
6. "Strike a Deep Chord-- Blues for the Homeless", Various Artists and well recorded.
7. Cowboy Junkies "The Caution Horses", or "Trinity Session".
8. Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"-- female vocals and soundstaging.
9. Jerry Lee Lewis-- recent 3 CD remastered set-- for PR&T
10. Loreena McKennitt, "Book of Secrets"-- bass and female vocals. Cheers. Craig

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Chesky records samplers - solo bass and drums on disk 2
Micky Heart - Dafos great dynamic test
Sheffield labs sampler - I hate the music but nice clean punch
'The Rainer Sound' xrcd - smooth as silk
Jazz at the pawnshop - live to tape, wide soundstage