Awards and Achievement
- 1996: Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame
- 1998: Keeping the Blues Alive Award in literature for The World Don't Owe Me Nothing
- 2002: National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowship Award
- 2005: Acoustic Blues-Artist of the Year (26th W.C. Handy Blues Awards)
- 2007: Acoustic Artist of the Year (The Blues Music Awards)
- 2008: Grammy Award; Best Traditional Blues Album for Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas
- 2010: Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy; Mississippi Governor's Awards For Excellence in the Arts
- 2010: Lifetime Achievement Award, National Guitar Museum
His albums White Windows, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin', Mississippi Delta Blues Man, and a recent album in which he appears with Robert Lockwood, Jr., Henry Townsend and Pinetop Perkins, Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas, were all nominated for the W. C. Handy Award. The latter album also won a Grammy Award in 2008.
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