Accolades

Client Accolades

Just a few collected over the years!

Altered Five Blues Band

  • 2015 Best Self-Produced CD Presented by The Blues Foundation
  • 2015 Blues Blast Music Award Nominee for Contemporary Blues Album & Sean Costello Rising Star
  • 2015 Finalist International Songwriting Competition “Find My Wings”
  • 2017 Finalist International Songwriting Competition “Charmed & Dangerous”
  • 2018 Independent Music Award Winner for Best Blues Song and Nominee for Blues Album
  • 2018 Blues Music Award Nominee for Best Emerging Artist Album
  • 2019 Semi-finalist International Songwriting Competition

Benny Turner

  • 2014 Offbeat Best of the Beat Awards – Nominee for Best Blues Album – Journey
  • 2015 International Songwriting Competition – Finalist for Blues Song – Breakin’ News
  • 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards – Nominee for Soul Blues Album – When She’s Gone
  • 2016 Independent Blues Awards – Nominee for Best Traditional Blues CD – When She’s Gone
  • 15th Independent Music Awards – Winner for Blues Song – I Can’t Leave
  • 16th Independent Music Awards – Nominee for Tribute CD – My Brother’s Blues
  • 2018 Global Music Awards – Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement – My Brother’s Blues
  • Benny received the 2017 Jus Blues Music Foundation “Little Milton Lifetime Bluesman Award”
  • Benny was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame in 2017
  • October 27, 2017 was named “Benny Turner Day” in Gilmer, TX by proclamation of Mayor Tim Marshall
  • 2018 Blues Music Awards Nominee for Instrumentalist-Bass
  • 2018 Blues Blast Music Awards – Nominee for Male Blues Artist of the Year and Soul Blues Album – My Brother’s Blues
  • 2018 Independent Blues Awards – Best Traditional Blues Band
  • 2018 International Songwriting Competition Finalist for Blues Song – What’s Wrong With The World Today
  • 25th annual Living Blues Awards, Critics’ Poll – Winner for Most Outstanding Musician (Bass)
  • 26th annual Living Blues Awards, Critics’ Poll – Winner for Most Outstanding Musician (Bass)
  • Finalist, 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Book Award
  • 2018 Bronze Medal Winner, Reader’s Favorite Book Awards
  • Finalist, 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
  • 2019 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) semi-finalist for “What’s Wrong With The World Today” composed by Benny Turner

Benny Turner & Cash McCall

  • 17th Independent Music Awards – Nominee for Blues Album – Going Back Home
  • 2019 Blues Blast Music Awards – Nominee for Traditional Blues Album – Going Back Home
  • 2019 Independent Music Awards – Nominee Blues Album – Going Back Home
  • 2019 Independent Blues Awards – Nominee Traditional Blues CD – Going Back Home

Bobby Rush

  • 2008 Blues Music Awards Nominee for Acoustic Album of the Year, Acoustic Artist of the Year, Entertainer of the Year and Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year

Buddy Guy

  • 53rd Annual Grammy Winner for Best Contemporary Blues Winner
  • 2011 Blues Music Award Winner for B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album, Contemporary Blues Male Artist, and Song of the Year
  • 2014 Blues Music Award Nominee for Album of the Year, B.B. King Entertainer, Contemporary Blues Album and Contemporary Blues Male Artist
  • 58th Annual Grammy Nominee for Best American Roots Performance and Best Blues Album
  • 2015 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2016 Blues Music Award Winner for Album & Contemporary Blues Album
  • 2019 Blues Music Award Nominee for Traditional Blues Album & Song
  • 61st Annual Grammy Winner for Best Traditional Blues Album

Charlie Musselwhite

  • 2007 Blues Music Awards Winner for Album of the Year, Instrumentalist – Harmonica, Song of the Year -Church is Out by Charlie Musselwhite, & Traditional Blues Album of the Year, and Nominee for Traditional Blues -Male Artist of the Year
  • 47th Annual Grammy Awards Nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album
  • 2005 W.C. Handy Awards Winner – Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year and Instrumentalist: Harmonica
  • 2014 Blues Music Award Nominee for Album of The Year (twice), Contemporary Blues Album, Instrumentalist-Harmonica and Traditional Blues Album
  • 57th Annual Grammy Awards Nomination for Best Blues Album
  • 2015 Blues Music Award Winner for Instrumentalist: Harmonica

David “Honeyboy” Edwards

  • 2009 Blues Music Award Nominee for Traditional Blues Album of The Year and Traditional Blues Male Artist of The Year
  • 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Delbert McClinton

  • 62nd Annual Grammy Winner for Best Traditional Blues Album

Frank Bey

  • 2014 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album & Soul Blues Male Artist
  • 2016 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album & Soul Blues Male Artist
  • 2018 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) Blues Finalist for “Back In Business” composed by Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming and Semi-Finalist for “Cookie Jar” composed by Jeff Monjack and Kevin Frieson
  • 2019 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album & Soul Blues Male Artist
  • 2019 Global Music Award for Blues Album and Male Vocalist
  • 2019 Independent Blues Awards Nominee for Traditional Blues CD, Traditional Blues Song (Take It Back To Georgia), Blues-Soul Artist, Traditional Blues Band
  • 2019 Blues Blast Music Awards Nominee for Soul Blues Album
  • 17th Independent Music Awards Nominee for Blues Album & Blues Song (Back In Business)

Gary Clark Jr.

  • 2015 Blues Music Award Winner for Contemporary Blues Male Artist

Hubert Sumlin

  • 48th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee for Best Traditional Blues Album
  • 2006 Blues Music Awards Winner for Traditional Blues Album of the Year and Instrumentalist-Guitar & Nominee for Album of the Year and Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year

Ian Siegal

  • 2012 Blues Music Award Nominee for Contemporary Blues Album
  • 2013 Blues Music Award Nominee for Contemporary Blues Album
  • 2016 Blues Music Award Nominee for Acoustic Artist

Jason Ricci

  • 2016 Blues Music Award Nominee for Instrumentalist: Harmonica

John Hammond

  • 48th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee for Best Traditional Blues Album
  • 2006 Blues Music Award Nominee for Acoustic Album of the Year.

Johnny Rawls

  • 2016 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Male Artist & Soul Blues Album
  • 2016 Blues Blast Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album
  • 2018 Blues Blast Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album
  • 2018 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album & Soul Blues Male Artist

Johnny Tucker

  • 2018 Global Music Award Silver Medal Winner
  • 2018 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) semi-finalist for “Seven Day Blues”

Kirk Fletcher

  • 2019 Blues Music Award Nominee for Contemporary Blues Album

Michael Powers

  • 2007 Blues Music Awards Nominee for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, Contemporary Blues -Male Artist of the Year, Song of the Year -Prodigal Son by Michael Powers
  • 2005 W.C. Handy Awards Nominee for Best New Artist Debut and Contemporary Blues Album of the Year

Michele D’Amour & The Love Dealers

  • 2017 Grand Prize, John Lennon Songwriting Contest
  • 2018 Global Music Award Bronze Medal Winner
  • 2019 “Best Blues Band” from LA Music Critic
  • 2019 Semi-finalist International Songwriting Competition
  • 2019 Silver Medals from Global Music Awards for female vocalist (Michele D’Amour), band (Michele D’Amour and the Love Dealers), and blues album (Heart of Memphis),

Missy Andersen

  • 2015 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Female Artist
  • 2015 Blues Blast Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album & Female Blues Artist
  • 2016 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Female Artist

Moonshine Society

  • 2020 Best Self-Produced CD Winner (The Blues Foundation)
  • 2019 Semi-finalist International Songwriting Competition

Otis Clay & Johnny Rawls

  • 2015 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album
  • 2015 Blues Music Award Nominees for Soul Blues Male Artist (both)
  • 2015 Blues Blast Music Award Winner for Soul Blues Album

Pinetop Perkins

  • 50th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee for Best Traditional Blues Album
  • 2008 Blues Music Awards Nominee for Best DVD – Born in the Honey

Son Seals

  • 2008 Blues Music Awards Nominee for Best DVD – Journey Through The Blues

Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps

  • 61st Annual Grammy Nominee for Best Contemporary Blues Album
  • 2019 Semi-finalist International Songwriting Competition
  • 2019 Semi-finalist International Songwriting Competition

Tom Hambridge

  • 2018 Blues Music Award Nominee for Instrumentalist – Drums
  • 2019 Blues Music Award Nominee for Instrumentalist – Drums & Song

Vaneese Thomas

  • 2015 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Album, Best New Artist Debut & Soul Blues Female Artist
  • 2016 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Female Artist
  • 2018 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Female Artist
  • 2020 Blues Music Award Nominee for Soul Blues Female Artist