Abby Dobson: Sleeping Beauty: You Are the One You Have Been Waiting On - Volumood One (2010)
This stunning debut album from premiere vocalist and songwriter Abby Dobson, featuring riveting melodies, heart-felt lyrics and an emotional vocal delivery, with equal spoons of honey and heartache, is sure to soothe and uplift you. Loosely based on the Sleeping Beauty fairytale, it is a song cycle told through five moods: Bliss, Lady Blue: In the Season of Her Disenchantment, Mean Sleep, (In the) Castle of My Skin and The Awakening: Go Make the World You Dream. A blend of R&B, soul, jazz, folk, gospel, reggae, pop and country, the seamless collection of songs in this concept album showcases incredible vocals, soaring guitars, magical piano and organ, enchanting strings, soul shaking horns, sweet pedal steel highlights, funky bass and rock solid drumming.
Recommended if you like
Anita Baker; Rachelle Ferrell,
John Legend,
Sade.