Blue Highway Awards

AWARDS:

INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION (IBMA) AWARDS
* Vocal Group of the Year- 2012
* Song of the Year - 2008, Through the Window of a Train
* Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year - 2004, Wondrous Love; 1997 - God Moves in a Windstorm
* Emerging Artist of the Year - 1996
* Album of the Year - 1996 - It's a Long, Long Road;  2006 - Celebration of Life: Musicians Against Childhood Cancer (collaboration); 2007 - Fork in the Road, The Infamous Stringdusters (Tim Stafford - producer) 

* Instrumental Recording of the Year -  2001 - Knee Deep in Bluegrass, The Acutab Sessions (Tim Stafford - producer, guitar; Rob Ickes - Dobro)
* Dobro Player of the Year  - Rob Ickes - 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996.   Justin Moses - 2018.

* Songwriter of the Year - Tim Stafford - 2017, 2014
Graphic Design for a Recorded Project - Blue Highway - Midnight Storm - Rebel Records - Craig Hansen - 1998
* ( Recorded Event of the Year - Special Consensus with Rob Ickes & Claire Lynch - Wild Montana Skies - 2014 )
* ( Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year - Rob Ickes, Jerry Douglas & Mike Auldridge - Three Bells - 2015 )

IBMA Liner Notes of the Year, Tim Stafford, Tony Rice, California Autumn, 2021.

IBMA Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year, “In the Resurrection Morning,” Sacred Reunion with Tim Stafford, Mark Wheeler, Doyle Lawson, Vince Gill, Barry Abernathy, Phil Ledbetter, Jim van Cleve, Jason Moore, Billy Blue Records, 2021. (co-winner)


DOVE AWARD
* Bluegrass Gospel Recording of the Year - 2004, Wondrous Love

GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
* Best Bluegrass Album - 2017 - Original Traditional
* Best Bluegrass Album - 2005 - Marbletown
* Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album - 2004 - Wondrous Love

SPBGMA AWARDS
* Gospel Group of the Year (Overall) - 2005
* Instrumental Group of the Year - 2003
* Dobro Performer of the Year - Rob Ickes, 2003
* Bass Performer of the Year - Wayne Taylor, 2001
* Guitar Performer of the Year - Tim Stafford, 2015, 2001


GRAMMY WINNERS 
* Tim Stafford - Best Bluegrass Album - 1993 - Every Time You Say Goodbye - with Alison Krauss & Union Station
* Rob Ickes - Best Bluegrass Album - 1995 - The Great Dobro Sessions - Collaborative album with Jerry Douglas, Tut Taylor, etc.

UNITED STATES ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
Rob Ickes - Named 2010 United States Artists Cummings Fellow in ceremony at New York's Lincoln Center. Ickes is the first Bluegrass artist to be named a USA Fellow.

POLLS
Blue Highway voted the Favorite Bluegrass Artist of All Time by the readers of Bluegrass Today.  April 2016.

 

VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME

Wayne Taylor was the 2016 Inductee into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame, alongside legends like Patsy Cline, the Statler Brothers, Jimmy Dean, Mother Maybelle Carter, and Roy Clark.