![]() The Traveler album also won three Gold Medals in the Global Music Awards for Instrumentalist, Album, and Top 10 Albums of the Year. In a separate year he received another first place award in the USA Songwriting Competition for the title track of his Traveler album. Lawson was also awarded third place for Artist of the Year. Songwriting Competition first place award for instrumental song of the year. The song "Shifting Seasons" from Full Circle won the U.S. His album Full Circle landed on the Billboard Top 10 World Music album sales chart and he was a Top 100 Artist of the Year on radio as ranked by RadioWave. His songs "Free to Fly", "Bluewave Bossanova", "World of Wonder", "Island Time", "Flight", "Daybreak", "Moonlight Samba," and "Infinita" have proven popular on jazz radio stations and landed on the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio chart. Video performances of Locomotion, The Fire Cadenza and Santa Ana Wind have been viewed millions of times on YouTube. He has reached a wide audience on both radio and the internet. He is best known for his compositions Free to Fly, World of Wonder, The Fire Cadenza, Santa Ana Wind, Flight, Daybreak, Infinita, and Moonlight Samba and his albums Rise, True North, Dark Matter, Airwaves: The Greatest Hits, Infinite Chill (the remix sessions), 3 Minutes To Midnight, Traveler, Infinita, Espirito, Elevation and Full Circle which were all critically acclaimed by the jazz and guitar communities. He often employs fast minor scales and diminished scale solo runs to his compositions which are executed in the flamenco picado style. His music is generally classed as Latin jazz and world music, with elements of samba, bossa nova, Middle Eastern, classical guitar, flamenco, and shred guitar. Guitar Player magazine ranked him as one of the "50 Best Acoustic Guitarists of All Time". Lawson Rollins is an American guitarist from North Carolina noted for his virtuoso fingerstyle technique and melodic compositional skills.
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