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Jim Adkins is an award winning songwriter/guitarist from the central Virginia area. He has won awards for his songwriting abilities in Smooth Jazz, Instrumental Composition and Inspirational/Gospel music over the years. His most notable was the 1999 BILLBOARD SONG CONTEST awards for the 2nd place in the Jazz category for the song "Wind Dancing" and was featured on the Billboard Annual Song Contest cd volume II. Wind Dancing was also selected out of more than 50,000 songs to be included on MP3s 103 of the Best Songs You've Never Heard Volume I which was distributed to over 250,000 music fans. He has also won eight awards in V.O.C.A.L. (Virginia Organization of Composers and Lyricist). His cd "The Journey" spent multiple weeks on the top 50 Smooth Jazz charts in the nation and received great reviews. It was also Grammy nominated for best jazz album!! In the year 2001, Jim signed with Positive Music Records and recorded a new cd called "Turning Point". The cd was produced by smooth jazz staple Ken Navarro. It contained songs from his first two cd's and four new compositions. "Turning Point" offers a fresh contemporary sound using some of the top musicians in the genre and features Jim's diverse guitar playing. The cd was released in February of 2002 and yielded a top 40 hit on the Smooth Jazz charts with the song "Into The Storm".