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!)