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
So many great suggestions here, many that I already enjoy and many more I've not heard. I just ordered 10 new cd's based on the suggestions here. I don't want to repeat many of my favs already mentioned but here are some I don't think I've seen mentioned here:

Lydia Loveless, Real
Connie Evingson, Gypsy in my Soul
Jeannie Bryson, Tonight I Need You So 
Jen Chapman, Open Wide
Haley Westerns, Pure
Diane Birch, Speak A Little Louder

enjoy!
surprised no one mentioned Roberta Gambarini, born in Italy.
try:
Easy to Love, 2006
so in Love, 2009
You are there, 2007.
I use her first two tracks as test CD's from EAsy to Love when auditioning new gear...great vocals, and awesome musicians.
Another fresh track, pure evil demon voice and instruments:
Sidsel Endresen - Traveling Still
Jennifer Warnes: Famous Blue Raincoat (songs of Leonard Cohen) and
The Well. Very well recorded.