Stevie Hawkins is a multiple award-winning artist who has ascended through the ranks as an adept drummer, vocalist, entertainer, songwriter, film music composer, teacher, audio engineer and producer. His ever-present influence inspires musicians and cult fans globally.

As a live performer, he electrifies his audience and immediately establishes a relationship with them during his shows. As a sideman and session drummer, he is known for his chameleon-like adaptability to envision and perform avant-garde conceptions across multiple genres of music. That is supported by playing drums in specialty music realms and cross-genres for international and national recording artists.

Since 1972 to the present day, and nestled within the below timelines, artists Stevie has performed on drums and vocals with have been:

Blues/Soul/R&B/Jazz
   John Lee Hooker
   Albert King
   Percy Sledge
   Rufus Thomas
   Chubby Checker
   Dee Clark
   Brook Benton
   Clifford Curry
   Eddie Tigner
   Reddog
   Donnie McCormick
   Wayne "Bear" Sauls & The Bear Facts Band
   The Ink Spots
   Miles Grayson
   Victor Orlando (Grammy Nominated Artist/Percussionist)
   Sammy Blue "The Crowned Prince of the Blues"
   Chick Willis
   James Cotton
   Heaven Davis
   Willie Hill
   Harvey Scales
   Stanley Jordan
   Al Feingold
   Al Dotson Jazz Orchestra
   Ace Cannon "The Godfather of Sax"

Blues/Soul/R&B/Jazz artists with whom Stevie shared the stage in concert:
   Buddy Rich Orchestra
   Eric Quincy Tate
   Sean Costello
   Mable John
   Eddie Floyd
   Sam & Dave
   Eddie Floyd
   Larry Raspberry and The Highsteppers
   William Bell
   Major Lance
   The Emotions

Rock/Pop
   Chuck Berry
   The Coasters
   The Drifters
   Leon Russell
   Gregg Allman
   Johnny Winter
   Bob Burns, Mark "Sparky" Matejka and Peter "Keys" Pisarczyk (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
   Charlie Rich
   Bertie Higgins
   Dan Seals (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
   Gary Loyd
   Sheila and Sherry Aldridge (Lawrence Welk Show)

Rock/Pop artists with whom Stevie shared the stage in concert:
   Charlie Daniels Band
   If
   Thunderhead
   Blackberry Smoke
   Alice Cooper
   Marshall Tucker Band

Country
   Glen Campbell & Tanya Tucker
   Webb Pierce
   Charlie Rich
   Daryle Singletary
   Ronnie Milsap
   Razzy Bailey
   Dan Seals
   Con Hunley
   Cledus T. Judd
   Jeff Carson
   Johnny Rodriguez
   Doug Stone
   Ed Bruce
   Dale Houston
   Charlie McCoy
   Jim Ed Brown

Country artists with whom Stevie shared the stage in concert:
   Lynn Anderson
   David Frizzell
   Rhonda Vincent
   Tracy Lawrence
   Heidi Newfield
   Sammy Kershaw
   Jeannie Seely
   John Michael Montgomery
   Lorrie Morgan
   Josh Thompson
   Vern Gosdin
   Janie Fricke
   Jerry Jeff Walker
   Craig Morgan
   Confederate Railroad
   Darryl Worley
   Little Texas
   T. Graham Brown
   Danielle Peck
   Ty Herndon
   Andy Griggs
   Rhett Akins

Specialty/Comedy
   Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus
   Jackie Mason - comedian
   Red Skelton
   Roger and Roger - comedians

Stevie has performed countless shows at many historic venues including, Whisky A Go-Go, Avalon Theater Hollywood, The Orpheum Theater, Capitol Theater, Strand Theater, and Renfro Valley. Stevie continues his life-long pursuit of musical and artistic excellence, demonstrating a tireless commitment to his craft.

His journey in music began at age 7, when he developed a keen interest in playing drums and how sounds on records were made. As with most musicians his age, The Beatles' performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 was an inspirational catalyst. That interest continued to grow to the point his mother, a big band vocalist at the time, at last set him up with a private drum instructor to take formal lessons at age 12, and purchased him a set of drums. He was taught and mentored by several great musicians in the East Tennessee region, some who went on to perform with artists such as Miles Davis, Tony Bennett, Pat Travers, Tammy Wynette, Tito Puente, Gap Mangione, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Pat Benetar, and the Amazing Rhythm Aces. After a couple years of formal drum and vocal training, embellished by training in both middle-school and high school bands and choruses, at age 14 he began playing drums and singing for local bands on weekends in nightclubs.

Stevie's first time performing on drums for a national recording artist happened in 1972 at age 16. The show was at a large country music nightclub/concert venue just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee called, "The Village Barn". The venue owner, Sam Roberts, often recommended Stevie as drummer for many of the artists who played shows at The Village Barn as a solo act or used pickup bands. The first artist was Ace Cannon, a bluesy/soul saxophonist from Memphis who recorded on the HI Records label. Ace's most notable hit was an instrumental entitled "Tuff". A short time after the Cannon show, and at the same venue, Stevie had the opportunity to play drums for country music legend and Decca Records artist, Webb Pierce. Webb's biggest hit was "In the Jailhouse Now," which charted for 37 consecutive weeks in 1955, with 21 of those weeks at #1. Other hits included "There Stands The Glass" and "More More More". Webb charted more #1 hits than any other country artist during the decade of 1950, with a career span as an artist of over 40 years. Both Cannon and Pierce were amazed by this young and talented drummer, and offered Stevie traveling gigs. But with Stevie still in high school, only able to play weekends, those offers were a moot point.

In 1973, and once again at The Village Barn, Stevie seized the opportunity to play drums for the Silver Fox, Mr. Charlie Rich. Rich was riding the wave of his first #1 hit on Epic Records, "Behind Closed Doors" that year. However, the show didn't go as planned. According to Stevie, Charlie played mostly blues tunes like "Big Boss Man", "Stormy Monday", and his hit "I Take It On Home", for that particular show. The audience began booing Charlie because he refused to play the song they wanted to hear, "Behind Closed Doors". Charlie was inebriated toward the end of the show, slammed the piano key cover down over the keys, said a few choice words to the audience, then walked off the stage, leaving the building, and not to return. That show was a lesson to Stevie of the possible outcome and effect of alchohol on a performer.

Stevie began playing drums for recording sessions early 1973, in a studio on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, named "England Sound." It was at England Sound where he began learning the ropes of recording, engineering and producing under the wings of David Watson, then bassist for the dynamite band, Wayne Cochran & The CC Riders. Stevie had always had a keen interest to learn how particular sounds and instruments were captured, then translated onto vinyl records, and Watson set him on course to those discoveries.

Stevie began writing his own music during this period of the early 1970s, and continued learning the recording and production processes from professionals, and on his own. That process of applied learning continues on to this day.

1974 and 1975 were rather busy and chaotic years for Stevie. Spring of 74 found him connecting with Stax Records artist, Rufus Thomas, at an outdoor Soul Music Revue in East Knoxville. Stevie's drum performance with a local 14 piece funk/soul band caught the attention of Rufus. Immediately after the band's set, and without introduction, Rufus grabbed Stevie by the arm, and said "Man oh man, where'd you learn to play that funky beat? I want you to come play that beat, for me." Stevie recalls, "I didn't know what to think in that moment, because I actually wasn't aware of Rufus Thomas. Although I had sang his song, "Walking The Dog" many times, I didn't know he was the original artist. It was one of the dance songs everybody in town played, so I learned the song via a friend. Many of the songs I played and sang were by osmosis. Anyway, here is a 57 year old African American man, wearing a pink jacket, pink shorts and white patent leather boots, acting all excited asking me to come play my funky beat for him. Medium story short, after seeing and hearing Rufus' show, I knew I had to get in on that action, so I did in fact go on play several shows with him throughout 1974. I learned a lot about music, entertaining, life, and cultural differences from Rufus. He was a kind, caring, fun loving man. Playing with him and his band was like a runaway locomotive train. The energy would mount and mount throught shows, and the musical chemistry among us all was incredible. Simply stated, Rufus brought down the house at every show he performed, and I have never experienced that same energy and groove since."

Besides playing with Rufus Thomas in 1974, Stevie performed with several other national recording artists locally that year at a showroom in West Knoxville called, Tiki Lounge, owned by Ron "Sack" McAbee. Those artists were, Brook Benton (Rainy Night In Georgia), Chubby Checker (The Twist), The Drifters (Under The Boardwalk), and Dee Clark (Raindrops). Stevie played drums and sang backing vocals for local star, Clifford Curry (She Shot A Hole In My Soul) at several outdoor festivals in summer of 74, and other occasions in later years. Curry became a cult legend among the South Carolina beach music set.

Concert promoter, Buddy Lee, Buddy Lee Attractions-Nashville, brought the 'Leon Russell Summer Tour 74' to Knoxville for a sold-out outdoor show at Bill Meyer baseball stadium. Opening the show, Stevie played drums with a regional rock group 'Sheffey Hollow Band' (John Brown, Donnie Bunch, Bobby 'BB' Brown, Fred Peters), fronted by vocalist, Bill 'Sweet William' Sauls. 'The Gap Band' was backing Leon on that tour. Also on the show was a progressive rock band from England named, If, (Dick Morrissey, Cliff Davies, Steve Rosenthal, Pete Arnesen, Fi Trench, Kurt Palomacki), signed to Capitol Records, and an American rock band, Thunderhead, (Bobby “T” Torello, Pat Rush, O.T. Ware, Ronnie Dobbs, Mike Dagger), produced by Johnny Winter, released on ABC Records. Sharing a couple of memories of the show, Stevie said, "Friend and fellow musician, 'BB' Brown and I were flying a frisbee backstage after our show. Band members Cliff Davies and Fi Trench of the band, If, were watching us. They approached us and asked if we would teach them how to fly it. We did, and soon had a fun, full on four-way frisbee flight in action! After we finished flying the frisbee, I kept eyeing the band's tour bus wondering about how to get a gig with Leon. Leon himself was traveling in Winnebago motor home, which had been parked near the fence at center field all day. The band itself was late getting to the show, and had only arrived about two hours before the show. While the Gap Band was setting up and conducting a brief sound check, I walked over to the bus, knocked on the door, and Leon's tour manager opened it. He asked, can I help you? I said yeah, how do you get a gig with Leon? He kinda laughed and said, what instrument do you play? I told him, drums and that I sing as well. He then asked, weren't you playing with the opening band, and I said yes. He invited me on the bus and we talked for 10 or 15 minutes. Just so happened, they were experiencing issues with one of the drummers Leon was using. He would play a good show, then a bad show. A brief audition was set up between Leon and myself after everyone had departed, and I got the gig. However, after about two weeks I decided to go back home. The conditions on the bus were horendous, with 12 to 14 people on an old Silver Eagle, having to sleep on the sofa in the front lounge of the bus, the reak of body odor, and so on. The playing was fun, but traveling conditions not so. To be honest, I also earned more money on a local level. I probably missed out on future next level opportunities by leaving, but as Popeye used to say: that's all I can stands and I can't stands no more!"

No doubt the music of the entire show was stellar and great time was had by all, but the show did not go without incident. The incident happened on stage, not off! Leon was positioned close to monitor world (directly to Leon's left side), or rather, where the person who operates the console for the monitor speakers on stage. I was standing toward the back of the stage to Leon's left side. At one point during the song, Delta Lady, Leon stood up and shouted something to the monitor engineer, who was constantly twisting knobs. Leon played a couple more songs, then stood up again and swiftly walked behind the monitor console, shouted aggressively at the engineer, then rared back and punched the guy right in the mouth, knocking the engineer off the side of stage. Leon proceeded back to his piano and finished the show. The monitor guy ended up with sore mouth and a broken wrist from the fall off the stage."

In an unlikely setting early fall of 1974 where Stevie was playing and singing in a acoustic jazz trio, Tony, Ace, and Emmy Award winning comedian, Jackie Mason, appeared one night. The venue was a small jazz music lounge in West Knoxville named, 'The Royal New Orleans', operated by, Theron Goldstein. Apparently, Mason was in Knoxville on a family visit. Mason sat in and did a stand-up comedy routine, of which Stevie recalls, "went way over the heads of most of the patrons. They didn't understand nor seem to like Jackie's ethnic Jews and Gentiles style of humor." About halfway through Mason's routine, Stevie applied a drum accent to one of Mason's punchlines, without Mason's request for him to do so. After the first accent, Mason said to Stevie, "If you do that again, I will need to call a Rabbi for spiritual consultation as to why gentile drummers have an incessant need to underscore Jewish comedians' tag lines. What a shegetz." At that particular moment, Mason finally received a laugh and a positive response from the audience. Mason continued with his next short one liner story, but Stevie obstained from accenting the tag line. Mason looks at Stevie and says, "Where's my drum accent? (Stevie says to Mason, I get paid by the accent). Pay you for accents? If I paid you by the note, I'd be broke in 30 seconds." Mason turns to the audience and replies, "folks, the drummer has now converted from a shegetz gentile to a prospective Jew! Let's forget the call to the Rabbi, this is promising." That brief back and forth between Jackie and Stevie truly broke the ice in the room. Mason being the quick mind that he is realized that, played off Stevie by interacting with him for the remainder of his skit. On the break, Mason thanked Stevie, told him he had an effectual sense in accent selections and timing for punchlines, that there is an art to that, and that he would like to use him for certain comedy settings in the future where music was involved.

As via, via or 'it's who you know' often happens in the music business, the connection between Rufus Thomas and Stax Records blues great, Albert King, brought Stevie to the attention of Mr. King, and how Stevie landed gigs playing drums for Albert in late 1974 and early 1975. Then, playing drums for Albert King, led to Stevie playing drums for blues legend, John Lee Hooker in 1975 as well.

Moving onward into 1975, Stevie played drums for Rock & Roll icon, Chuck Berry, at a medium size showroom venue in West Knoxville called, The Corral West, co-owned by Guy Jenkins. Mr. Berry was using pick up or house bands at that time to cut down on his travel expenses. However, he was so impressed and moved by Stevie's rock shuffle grooves, that Berry invited Stevie to play several shows in the Southeastern United States with him that year.

In the early 1970s, Stevie landed his first publishing and writer deal with Miles Grayson, owner of Respect Music, BMI in Los Angeles. Stevie is also co-writer with Mr. Grayson and Booker T. Lexing of an early 1970s single by Brenda George, "What You See Is What You're Gonna Get", released on Kent Records.  Forty plus years later, Mr. Grayson remain friends and music business associates.

During 1978, Stevie began pitching his original songs to record labels and music publishers in Nashville. Stevie paved an open-door policy for himself, and was mentored by several of Nashville's top executives at the time, Fred Rose (Acuff Rose Music-Nashville), Diane Petty (President of ABC Records-Nashville), Billy Sherrill (President/Producer CBS Records-Nashville), Roy Dea (V.P. of A&R RCA-Nashville), Arnold Theiss & Dave Burgess (A&R for Gene Autry's Republic Records), Pat Higdon (MCA Music Publishing-Nashville), Ken Stilts (Manager of The Judds), session musician and music publisher Bob Moore, artist/songwriter Ed Bruce (Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys) among others.

In 1979, Stevie began writing, recording, engineering and producing radio and television commercials. He performs as a vocalist, instrumentalist and voice-over talent for small business, advertising agencies, Radio/TV and Multi-Media commercial ad clients. Agency and Media clients have included; Jim Early "Early & Associates" Knoxville, TN, Dick Broadcasting, WIVK-FM, WOKI-FM, WNOX-AM, WROL-AM, WBIR-TV, WATE-TV, WKLS-FM 96 Rock Atlanta, GA, Davis-Newman Payne Agency. Local, regional and national jingles Stevie has produced, written and/or composed include; Campbell's Soup, Nike, Arby's, Old Navy, Expedia, Zatarain's, CBS News, Macy's, Snapper Mowers, Fi-Shock Bug Killers, The Real Yellow Pages, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Country artist Daryle Singletary and comedian Larry The Cable Guy tour promotions, Smoky Mountain Market, Clayton Homes, Clayton Motors, Dean Stallings Ford (Featuring country artist Con Hunley), Rodgers Cadillac, Add Rite, Ringling Brothers Circus, Liberty Trouser Co., Hermann Survivor Shoes, Harb's Carpet, Rice Oldsmobile, Ace Auto Rental, Big Red Boat and many others. Stevie performs most of voice-over work on the jingles he produces, and is very adept at creating and adapting voice characterizations.

During 1981, Stevie caught the attention of local CBS television affiliate, WBIR (now NBC), and its prime field news reporter, Gene Patterson, for his successes as a jingle writer, local entertainer, recording studio owner, music awards recipient, and known for being a one-man band in the recording studio. Mr. Patterson, along with video director - cameraman, Gary Davis, produced a news series titled, "Take This Job And Love It", for WBIR. The series encompassed people with occupations other than the standard 9 to 5 jobs. Mr. Patterson and Mr. Davis taped Stevie in his recording studio. WBIR aired the short feature about Stevie, November 6, 1981. Watch the original clip that aired by clicking this link: https://www.facebook.com/steviehawkinsmusic/videos/10150570374259984

1982 found Stevie performing at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville as a staff entertainer/musician with a Latin-Jazz trio. Stevie performed as many as four shows per day at times for the six-month duration of the fair. During his tenure at the fair site, Stevie had the opportunity to perform with world renowned Jazz guitarist, Stanley Jordan. He also backed up Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker on drums at the fair. Between fair gigs, Stevie was in the studio writing and recording jingles, mixing surround sound projects for exhibitors on the World's Fair site, as well as cutting demo and master sessions in his studio.

Summer of 1983, Stevie moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he performed a wide variety of music in the local club and concert venues, while expanding the horizons of his writing and recording talents. He was very aggressive pitching his songs to major record labels, music publishers, artists, and was signed to several publishing deals. In 1986, he opened a recording studio in Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, engineering and producing demos and master sessions. Word got around rather quickly about Stevie and the "Sound" he was getting in his studio, and his talents as a visionary producer. Artists he recorded in his studio included country music superstar Doug Stone, and Keith Burns, founding member of Grammy nominated, Academy of Country Music Awards, American Music Awards, award-winning platinum selling trio, Trick Pony.

Stevie entered the realm of creating music for film during 1994 via a recommendation to film director, Mark Morton, by Stevie's associates, Tim Pritchett, a retired Columbia/Epic Records-Nashville promotion executive, and Bill Haney, a legendary Soul/R&B record producer based in Atlanta. Mr. Pritchett owned a recording studio in Marietta, Georgia, where Stevie was chief audio engineer and a staff music producer. After hearing some of Stevie's original compositions and the sound he attained as a engineer and producer, Mr. Morton offered him the film scoring gig. Stevie served as Music Supervisor, Music and Sound Editor, and single-handedly created orchestration, wrote individual songs, engineered, produced and performed all instrumentation for Morton's feature film, "Dream Stalker". The film was released by Picture One, Atlanta, GA, directed by Morton, produced by Chris Mills. Stevie also created the FX tracks and Sound Design for the feature.

As a music industry professional, he has in-depth knowledge in music publishing, A&R, record label operations and recording. From 1996 to 1999, Stevie served in the capacities of publishing catalog manager/administrator, royalty collections, and song plugger for Atlanta, Georgia based Ginn Music Group and its music publishing companies, Jalew Music-BMI, Act One Music-BMI, Moonsong Music-BMI and Grapevine Music-ASCAP. The catalogs include hit songwriters Sam Dees, Sammy Johns, Jimmy Lewis, Dorothy Norwood, Norman Blake, Bill Brandon, Frederick Knight, Loletta Holloway. Stevie was instrumental in securing artist cuts for Jalew, Act One, Moonsong and Grapevine to include; Ray Charles, Mary J. Blige, Sammy Kershaw, Will Smith, Oak Ridge Boys, Jermaine Dupri, Lil Romeo, Big Daddy Kane, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Lil Kim, Wyclef Jean, X-Clan, Special Ed, Shaquille O'Neal, John Michael Montgomery, and motion picture song placements in the movies "Larger Than Life" starring Bill Murray - Matthew McConaughey - Jerry Adler, and "Made In America" starring Whoopie Goldberg - Ted Danson - Will Smith.

From 1999 to 2003, Stevie held the position of Vice President of A&R - Chief Audio Engineer and Staff Producer for Ginn Music Group's record companies; GRC Records, HotLanta Records and Aware Records. He worked closely with GRC label clients (Universal/MCA, Warner Brothers, Atlantic, EMI, BMG, Sony, Ace/Kent-UK) among others. As a highlight while at GRC, Stevie re-mixed and mastered tracks for the GRC re-issue of the legendary bluegrass band, Red White & Bluegrass (Ginger Boatwright, Grant Boatwright, Dave Sebolt, Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, Byron Berline) and their historic album "Jammer's Journal," originally released in 1974. The album also included previously unreleased tracks by RW&B and solo tracks by Ginger Boatwright.

In 2003, Stevie formed and currently owns, two independent record labels; Alternative/Urban Records and Emphasis Records, as well as two music publishing companies; Hannon Hawkins Music-BMI and Uncle Slim Music-ASCAP. The four companies fall under the umbrella of Atlanta Music Group. Artist releases include; Hydra, Eric Quincy Tate, Wayne "Bear" Sauls, John Breen, Stevie Hawkins and Justin Hawkins. Recent film/television placements from his publishing and master recordings catalogs include the 2021 Oscar winning Warner Bros film, "Judas and the Black Messiah", a Landmark Productions LLC television drama series, "The Book of Nimrod", and a song from his "What The Funk?" album titled "Only You", synced in a 2018 Universal/Blumhouse/Divide-Conquer film titled, "Thriller". The song was chosen by Los Angeles based music supervisor, Paul Stewart ("Hustle and Flow" - Academy Award for Best Original Song, "Men of Honor", "Four Brothers", "2 Fast 2 Furious"). The film was distributed by Blumhouse Productions ("Get Out", "Whiplash", "Halloween" - 2018 production). Previous artist cuts from his music publishing catalogs include; Cher, Cyndi Lauper, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Roger Daltrey, Judy Collins, Peter Cetera, Selena, and Keith Sweat. Catalog placements in cable networks and television shows include; Felicity, Dawson’s Creek, Sex In The City, MTV, VH1, HBO, All My Children soap, among others. Through Hannon Hawkins Music Publishing, Stevie has worked directly with hit songwriters and artists, Andrew Gold (Thank You For Being A Friend, Lonely Boy), Paul Gurvitz (Graeme Edge Band, Baker Gurvitz Army w/Ginger Baker), Kit Hain (The Temptations, Chaka Khan), Miles Grayson (The Rolling Stones, Johnny Taylor, ZZ Hill), and many others.

He began working as Executive/A&R Manager for Respect Music Co. BMI in Los Angeles, CA in late 2016. The company founder/owner Miles Grayson is a legendary composer/arranger/producer. Grayson and Hawkins are Participation Recipients in the 2018 GRAMMY Awards with The Rolling Stones "Blue & Lonesome" album that won the Recording Academy "Best Traditional Blues Album" category. Grayson and Hawkins also received Platinum Plaque awards for the same Rolling Stones album. Visit the Respect Music Co. BMI wesbite.

Besides his creative work in music, Stevie owns a multi-media company, creating custom graphics for magazine ads, social media, corporate, as well as providing video editing services. Visit the Atlanta Multimedia Group wesbite.

During 2020, Stevie began working as a freelance song clearance researcher for Warner Bros. Pictures, tasked with finding copyright owners of obscrure recordings from the 1960s and 1970s.

Stevie is continually touring, creating and releasing new music, with a focus upon synchonzation licensing of his music catalogs for Film and Televison usages.

Awards:
• 2023 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Blues Artist"
• 2023 Indie Music Channel Awards - Nominated “Blest Blues Producer"
• 2023 Indie Music Channel Awards - Nominated “Best Special Songwriter (Blues)"
• 2023 Indie Music Channel Awards - Nominated “Best R&B Songwriter"
• 2023 Hollywood Independent Music Awards - Nominated “Blues Artist of the Year"
• 2022 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Artist of the Year"
• 2022 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Producer of the Year"
• 2022 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Special Live Performance (Rock)"
• 2022 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Special Songwriter (Blues)"
• 2022 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Blues Producer"
• 2022 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Blues Artist"
• 2022 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Live Blues Performance"
• 2022 Indie Music Channel Awards - Nominated “Best Instrumental"
• 2021 Warner Bros. Pictures "Director's Choice Song Award" - Contribution to the Oscar winning film, "Judas and the Black Messiah"
• 2020 Abbey Road Studios "Mix Wizard Award" - Outstanding Music Mix Engineer
• 2020 Double Platinum Certified Award - For contribution to the album: Black Eyed Peas "Translation" - BEP Music/Epic Records
• 2018 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards Recipient - Rolling Stones "Blue & Lonesome" - “Best Traditional Blues Album" - Executive/A&R Participation Recipient
• 2018 BPI Platinum Record & CD Award - For contribution to the album: "Blue & Lonesome" by The Rolling Stones - Polydor Records UK/Interscope/Promotone BV
• 2016 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Live Blues Performance"
• 2016 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Live R&B Performance", along with Miles Grayson and Grammy nominated percussionist, Victor Orlando.
• 2015 Akademia Music Awards - Winner “Best Blues / R&B Song” for the title Talk To Me
• 2013 Multi-Platinum Certified Single Award - For contribution to the single: "Livin' It Up" by Ciara & Nicky Minaj - Epic Records
• 2013 Los Angeles Music Awards - Winner “Urban Artist”
• 2012 Multi-Platinum Record & CD Award - For contribution to the album: "Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City" by Kendrick Lamar - TDE/Aftermath/Interscope Records
• 2012 Los Angeles Music Awards - Winner “Record of the Year” for producer & engineer of the album “What The Funk?”
• 2012 Los Angeles Music Awards - Winner “Mark Vigil Male Singer/Songwriter of the Year”
• 2012 Artists In Music Awards - Winner “Best Jazz Artist”. Nominated for “Best Blues Artist”
• 2012 Indie Music Channel Awards - Winner “Best Male Blues Artist”
• 2001 Platinum Record & CD Award - For contribution to the album: "The Saga Continues" by P. Diddy & The Bad Boy Family - Bad Boy/Arista Records
• 2000 Platinum Record Award - For contribution to the album: "The Notorious Kim" Lil' Kim - Queen Bee/Undeas/Atlantic Records
• 1997 Platinum Record & CD Award - For contribution to the album: "Share My World" by Mary J. Blige - MCA/Universal Records
• 1996 Gold Record Award - For contribution to the album: "Doing His Thing" by Ray Charles - ABC/Tangerine Records
• 1996 Gold Record Award - For contribution to the album: "Politics Religion and Her" by Sammy Kershaw - Mercury Nashville
• 1982 Knoxville Entertainment Awards - Winner “Pop Vocalist of the Year”
• 1982 Knoxville Entertainment Awards - Winner “Pop Drummer of the Year”
• 1982 Knoxville Entertainment Awards - Winner “Country Drummer of the Year”
• 1982 East Tennessee Advertising Awards - “Most Outstanding Radio Commercial”
• 1979 Knoxville Entertainment Awards - Winner “Rock Drummer of the Year”
• 1977 Multi-Platinum Record Award - For contribution to the album: "Dreamboat Annie" by Heart - Mushroom records
• 1973 Gold Record Award - For contribution to the single: "Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns - GRC Records