# Best female singer/songwriter ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-female-singer-songwriter/28870>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 10, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-female-singer-songwriter/28870 "2000-08-10T18:49:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-female-singer-songwriter/28870/41 "2000-08-19T19:52:49Z")

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Sarah McLachlan  
Billie Holiday  
Patsy Kline

Hands down.

Honorable mention to Courtney Love before she became so commercialized.

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**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-female-singer-songwriter/28870/42 "2000-08-19T20:08:15Z")

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Kristen Hersh by a bizarre, tormented, chain-of-consciousness mile.

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-female-singer-songwriter/28870/43 "2000-08-19T20:17:12Z")

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When I was younger I was into heavy metal and so when a friend said he had some free tickets to a **Michelle Shocked** concert I wasn’t that enthusiastic.

It was the best concert I was ever at and got me into fock music . She has to be added to this list IMO.

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**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-female-singer-songwriter/28870/44 "2000-08-19T20:21:29Z")

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Oops, forgot one.

Blue grass singer and writer Alison Krauss - She has a voice like an angel!

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**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-female-singer-songwriter/28870/45 "2000-08-19T21:50:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Diane \*  
> \*\*Oops, forgot one.
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> Blue grass singer and writer Alison Krauss - She has a voice like an angel! \*\*

I like Alison (seeing her Sunday night)…don’t think she writes her own songs though…

However… here is THE list

Loreena McKennitt  
Connie Dover (American folk/celtic)  
Julie Miller  
Nanci Griffith  
Kate Campbell  
Dar Williams  
Lucy Kaplansky  
Kim Richey  
occasionally Mary Chapin Carpenter

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