Norah Jones a tinge short

I can't believe no one has mentioned laverne Butler. A great voice and very soulful but restrained.her album "foolish thing"is heavy rotation for me.

I think Nora is about 5'2".

Jswarnke, Couldn't agree with you more about Butler. Excellent! I didn't read all of the posts carefully but I didn't notice any mention of Mary Stallings, Rene Marie, or for that matter Shirley Horn - of course these are jazz singers not pop/rock or audiophile types. Speaking of pop no one mentioned Cassidy - but I guess she dead isn't she. Non the less she sang everything - soul, pop, jazz. What a talent! Guess Horn's dead too. But at least she got a lot down before she died. Oh, another great jazz singer not mentioned much Etta Jones, wife of Houston Person. Big voice - lots of character - not just another knock off.

I woun't mention who I don't listen to after hearing their albums once! :-)

Well, I sorta started this free-for-all and must chime in here, not so much on the Snore-ah issue (I've said what I wanted to say) but on the OTHER question: "Do women singers sing anything but love songs?".

Hell-O? Can you say the one-of-a-kind Nina Simone?

And NOT ONE mention yet of the too-good-to-mention-in-the-same-thread-as-Snore-ah-but-forgive-me-I-just did: Lucinda Williams? Who also happens to be a great songwriter, who can put so much emotion into a song, whether it's love, eroticism, anguish, anger, or (sometimes) lightheartedness it puts you inside her head and inside her heart? I really don't care whether anyone agrees with what I think but if no one has mentioned Lucinda yet I really think you need to at least give her a listen.

Others I like, some of whom are criminally underrated: Linda R., EmmyLou, Nanci G (sometimes), Jennifer W., Alison K., Anita O'Day, K.D. Lang, Paula Cole, Margot Timmins...

Diana K. can sometimes be fun to listen to, not in small part due to great production quality, which actually makes for good audition tracks, as does Jacintha.

The CD "Miss America" by Mary Margaret O'Hara ... borderline atonality, but truly iconic ... one I've kept for the past 20 years.

I just noticed today that the drummer on Sting's 1991 "The Soul Cages" ... was Manu Katché ... whose 2007 "Playground" CD is extremely good