Loreena McKennitt and Eva Cassidy

RE: Eva Cassidy- I liked Time After Time next best to Live @ Blues Alley. Songbird is a compilation. The new one "Imagine" doesn't seem to have the emotion of the others. Also try Tracy Nelson or Rory Block for white girls singing the blues.

If you like a little harder edge to your female blues players/singers try most anything done by Debbie Davies (Tales from the Austin Motel, Picture This) to name a few, and take a listen to Joanna Conners - Slide Time, Susan Tedeschi - Just Won't Burn. These are worth a listen and are sonicly well produced but not at the level of "Live at Blues Alley" that is a GREAT piece of work all the way around.

Loreena McKennitt's "Mask and the Mirror" is quite excellent, both musically and sonically. Sean
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You might also check out the best of Julia Fordham or her Porcelain cd.

Warrenh; congratulations on your finds-- that's the best part of this strange hobby, IMO! Those are two of my favorite CDs. I have all of L. McKennitt's
CDs and there are no weak ones, but as noted above, "The Visit" and "The Mask and the Mirror are excellent next choices.

Mai're Brennan (lead singer of Clannad) is another excellent Celtic/neo-Celtic singer that I really like. I have Eva Cassiday's other CDs and there is some good music there, but Blues Alley is the best. Cheers. Craig