Abby Dobson | Sleeping Beauty: You Are The One You Have Been Waiting On – Volumood One

Abby Dobson : Sleeping Beauty: You Are The One You Have Been Waiting On – Volumood One

The sleeping beauty has finally awakened. Like I, many of you may never have heard of her until now. Judging from her new album Sleeping Beauty: You Are The One You Have Been Waiting On – Volumood One, the singing beauty Abby Dobson will be resonating in our homes for a long time. She has an astounding voice, great lyrics and enough talent to guarantee that she will not be a one hit wonder.

The songs in this album do not fit the glove of one musical genre. Instead, like a pot of stew, Abby has stirred in some reggae, jazz, country, folk, blues and soul. This shows her free spirit, allowing Abby to fly without nesting to one definition. The rather interesting concept of this album is drawn from the faiytale Sleeping Beauty and the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Alice Walker’s We Are the One’s We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness.

Cool Rain (A Prelude For Horns) sets the atmosphere of the album. The first song I’m Drowning is the beginning of the roller-coaster ride of a woman so deeply in-love that she can not define herself; she can only define the ‘we’ and not the ‘I’. My personal favorites so far are Unconditional (where Abby is joined by successful Grammy nominated pianist Robert Glasper) and Born 2 Luv U which I will possibly serenade the love of my life to should meeting him be written somewhere in my stars (Maxwell, I have a dream!)

In the final song of the album Sleeping Beauty: Go Make The World You Dream, Abby urges to leave the hurt from the past behind, stop second guessing, holding back or waiting for someone else to give what you are looking for. Go make the world you dream. Now that song fits the glove of a country music song doesn’t it?

This is definitely an album to buy and an artist to keep in your radar. There is a thought and story in every song. The only way that was achieved was through years of crafting and assembling of lessons learned along the journey of life and love.

Susan Mutharia
The Urban Music Scene