Billboard Top 10 ranked guitarist and composer Lawson Rollins is described by Guitar Player Magazine as one of the “50 Transcendent Acoustic Guitarists” of all time. Rollins plays his instrument with a soulful intensity that combines the stimulating rhythmic drive of rumba, salsa, and samba with graceful melodic finesse and free-flowing improvisational flair. Acoustic Guitar Magazine describes his playing as ‘impeccable’ and ‘dazzling’ while Guitar Player writes, “Lawson Rollins is a bona fide star…The key to Rollins’ mass appeal is his signature artistic balance between classically influenced compositional refinement, infectious exotic rhythms, and the unbridled intensity of full-on shred.”
Over the past 20 years, Lawson’s 10 solo albums and 4 albums with his prior group Young & Rollins have landed in the Billboard Top 10 World Music Chart and spawned several Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz hits, winning him an ever growing fan base attracted by his melodic, exhilarating solos and exotic, cross-genre instrumentation performed by internationally renowned musicians. Sensational videos like “The Fire Cadenza” and “Locomotion” – a jaw dropping display of his electrifying speed and gift for merging rhythm and melody – have attracted millions of broadcast television and internet viewers including over 10 million views alone on YouTube.