Duke Robillard Bio Highlights ★2012 Blues Music Award Nominee - Gibson Guitar Award - an honor he has won previously 4 times (category was previously known as Best Instrumentalist - Guitar)★2012 Living Blues Award Nominee - for Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)
★2011 Blues Music Award Nominee for Traditional Blues Album of the Year for Passport to the Blues AND Best Instrumentalist – Guitar ★2011 Boston Music Awards Nominee for Blues Artist of the Year "One of the great players" BB King ★ GRAMMY Nominations for Best Traditional “Robillard is a soloist of stunning force Blues Album for 2010 Stomp! The Blues and originality.” the New York Times Tonight and 2006 Guitar Groove-a-Rama
"One of God's guitarists.” The Houston Post ✭ 2012 Featured performer at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Chuck Berry tribute concert on “Most everything Duke Robillard has done as a guitarist October 27, 2012 along with Chuck Berry, Joe during the past four-plus decades...bears witness to his Bonamassa, Rick Derringer musical intelligence and his dedication to his craft”. - Downbeat ★2011 B. B. King International Artist of the Year Award Nominee in The Toronto Blues “Robillard’s ability to play across the spectrum of blues is Society's 15th Maple Blues Awards program. legendary. Few players can move stylistically from Texas Duke won this award three years in a row (2001- to Kansas City to Chicago’s West Side, but Robillard 2003) and this also marks Duke's seventh makes it seem easy.”- Guitar Player nomination “A guitarist’s guitarist, prolific producer, and master of all things blues, Duke Robillard walks the tightrope between ★2010 Blues Music Awards Winner for traditionalism and experimentation...He’s a master of many Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year. Also styles who moves forward while maintaining a firm nominated in 2010 for Album of the Year, Band grounding in the past.” - Blues Revue of the Year, and Best Instrumentalist – Guitar
Bio Highlights: ★2004 Keeping The Blues Alive Award for Best Producer presented by The Blues Music 2016 Stony Plain Records announces a September ★ Foundation 9, 2016 release date for Duke’s new CD “Blues Full Circle”. Special guests on the new album include the legendary Jimmie Vaughan, Sugar Ray Norcia and ★The Blues Music Awards (formerly W.C.Handy Kelley Hunt. Awards) have named Duke Robillard "Best Blues Guitarist" four years out of five ★2016 “The Acoustic Blues and Roots of Duke (2000,2001,2003,2004) making him the second Robillard” is named “Acoustic Blues Album of the most honored guitarist for that award! He was also Year” for the 2016 Blues Music Awards and #45 of nominated in 2005, 2007 and 2008. the 50 best blues albums of 2015 by Living Blues Magazine ★Collaborations playing with and/or producing: Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Maria Muldaur, Dr. John, ★2014 Duke is inducted into the Rhode Island John Hammond; plus sorely-missed legends such Music Hall of Fame in May of 2014. as Jay McShann, Ruth Brown, Jimmy Witherspoon, Rosco Gordon, Otis Clay and ★2013 DownBeat Critics Poll, ranked among the Long John Baldry. Best Blues Artist of Group