"James Cotton was a pioneering harmonica player who worked with Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and helped establish his instrument as an integral part of modern blues...Mr. Cotton also won several W. C. Handy International Blues Awards (since 2006 known as the Blues Music Awards) long considered among the highest accolades for musicians working in that idiom. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2006." - New York Times