• 2015 Best Blues Artist as part of the Lexington Music Awards (Later titled The Tee Dee Young Blues Award)
  • 2011 Beale Street Blues King by the Beale Street Merchants Association in Memphis, Tennessee 
  • 2011 award for Best Blues Band in the State of Kentucky from the Kentucky Blues Society 
  • 2011 International Blues Challenge finalist by The Blues Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee 
  • Official “Tee Dee Young Day” that went into effect in Lexington, Kentucky September 13, 2017 
  • Kentucky Colonel in the state of Kentucky 
  • 2022 Kentucky Music Hall of Fame inductee
  • 2023 Highway I-75 Billboard sign for Kentucky Music Hall of Fame & Museum
  • 2023 Governors Arts Award in Folk Heritage