As this is my favourite "genre", I wonder if anyone has distilled the 3000 acclaimed albums into one of just the female singer-songwriters.

If they have, I'd certainly like to see it. If no-one has done this, I will compile the list myself and list it here.

Please do, Captain... I'd like to see that. I just did a quick recount of the post-1971 solo female artists in the top-250 in the thread on the Entertainment Weekly list, and was disappointed in the dearth of female artists represented.