2010 GRAMMY Nomineee for Best Traditional Blues Album for Stomp! The Blues Tonight (2nd nomination in 3 years in this category)

4 Blues Music Award Nominations for 2010 (Album of the Year, Band of the Year, Best Instrumentalist - Guitar and Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year)

Four-time Best Blues Guitarist Winner at the Blues Music Awards

2009 Features on Mountain Stage (NPR) & House of Blues Radio Hour

New CD, Tales From The Tiki Lounge Out February 2 (dedicated to the music of Les Paul)

Collaborations playing with and/or producing: Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Maria Muldaur, Dr. John, John Hammond; sorely-missed legends such as Jay McShann, Ruth Brown, Jimmy Witherspoon, Rosco Gordon and Long John Baldry, as well as Producer of Joe Louis Walker's Between a Rock and The Blues which is nominated for Album of the Year as well as Contemporary Blues Album of The Year in the 2010 Blues Music Awards

2004 Keeping The Blues Alive Award for Best Producer presented by The Blues Music Foundation

The legendary B.B. King says of him: "Duke's one of the great players."

"a soloist of stunning force and originality" - The New York Times