2011

• Offbeat (New Orleans) Lifetime Achievement Award


2010

• Grammy nomination (co-producer of Woody Guthrie's My Dusty Road)

2007   

• Sweet Soul Music Award, awarded by the Porretta Soul Festival, Porretta Terme, Italy

• Grammy Award (producer of Irma Thomas’s After the Rain)

2002

• Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Producer, awarded by The Blues Foundation

1996

• Offbeat Magazine (New Orleans) Best Producer Award
(shared with Allen Toussaint)

1990   

• Nominated as Producer of the Year, Boston Music Awards

1989

• Nominated as Producer of the Year, Boston Music Awards

1987

• Communication Arts Magazine Award of Excellence

1985   

• Appointment as Colonel on the staff of Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards

1984

• Communication Arts Magazine Award of Excellence

1982

• Grammy Award (co-producer of Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown’s Alright Again!)