Aimee Mann

I was just ready to say, "Batchelor No.2" may be a superior record.

Yeah, she gas an angelic voice akin to Natalie Merchant and Alison Krauss.  

It seems that she was heralded as one of America's great song writers around the same time as John Hiatt and a few others.

Big fan and saw her once in San Francisco. I love the Mobile Fidelity SACD of "Lost In Space".

Her T'il Tuesday work is rather good.

re "superior record."

it's hard to say which one would be my favorite because all her records are 70% to me, some incredible stuff and then the rest over the fence, so gloomy I have to turn it down. Magnolia was clearly a very clean powerful story, the movie couldn't be the same without it. 
At the end, I think her songs are a vehicle to deliver that sweet inflection she can do with her voice, so I am just a fan of all her albums.