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Guitar
maestro Lawson Rollins reaches a new musical zenith on his
2015 CD release Traveler. Commenting on his 5th
solo album, Lawson explains, Traveler is a musical travelogue
for me, chronicling some of my journeys in life and evoking some of
the places Ive lived, visited and returned to in my memory.
On this journey, my guitar serves as a kind of filter through which
my impressions of the world are processed and expressed in the language
of music. Lawson always surrounds himself with expert musicians
on his albums and members of his Traveler recording crew include
violinists Charlie Bisharat and Mads Tolling, Randy
Tico (bass), Dave Bryant (drums, percussion), Matt Tudor
(slide guitar, dobro) and Cameron Stone (cello), along
with members of the swing jazz band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Also on
board is album co-producer Dominic Camardella on keyboards
and associate producer Stephen Duros (drums, programming, keyboards).
As he's proven on his previous releases, Full Circle (2013),
Elevation (2011), Espirito (2010) and Infinita (2008),
Lawsons albums are always multicolored sonic excursions that
center around his rhythmic and fluid fretboard work, which just seems
to sound better album to album. Fans
of state-of-the-art guitar music describe Lawsons original music
as both guitar fusion and symphonic flamenco jazz while theres
also a wide range of World Beat groove sounds that keeps the music
inclusive. With highlights including the spirited sounding title track,
the Euro-tinge of the Bach inspired Berlin Bossa and the
epic three part suite, The Urban Trilogy, including the
album finale City Electric, Lawson Rollins Traveler
is 21st century universal guitar instrumental music at its best. www.LawsonRollins.com
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