Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1967 Best Sacred Performance, Surely Goodness and Mercy, George Beverly Shea with The Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1968 Best Gospel Performance, Yours Faithfully, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1971 Best Gospel Performance, He's Still the King of Kings (and Lord of Lords), The Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1974 Best Gospel Performance, There He Goes, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1976 Best Gospel Performance, Learning to Lean, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1977 Best Gospel Performance, Traditional, Bill Gaither Songs by the Blackwood Brothers, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1978 Best Gospel Performance, Traditional, His Amazing Love, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1997 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album, Keep Lookin' Up: The Texas Swing Sessions, James Blackwood and The Light Crust Doughboys 1998 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album, They Gave the World a Smile: the Stamps Quartet Tribute Album, James Blackwood Quartet and The Light Crust Doughboys 2000 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album, The Great Gospel Hit Parade: From Memphis To Nashville To Texas, James Blackwood, The Jordanaires and The Light Crust Doughboys During his long career, James was probably honored with more awards that any other gospel singer. He is the only person in any field of music to have been nominated for a Grammy award for 28 consecutive years. He received 31 total nominations and won nine Grammy Awards. In the 1990s, at the request of Art Greenhaw, a lifelong fan and musical disciple of James Blackwood, Blackwood began a series of recording sessions with Greenhaw's band, The Light Crust Doughboys. The collaboration resulted in four Grammy nominations in four different years for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album of the Year, two Dove nominations for Best Gospel Album of the Year in either southern or country gospel categories, and Inspirational TV's nomination for Best Southern Gospel Album of the Year. In the year of Blackwood's, We Called Him Mr. Gospel Music: The James Blackwood Tribute Album (2002) was released and won the Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album at the 2003 Grammy Awards in New York City. GMA Dove Awards His peers in the Gospel Music Association voted him the GMA Dove Award Top Male Vocalist for seven consecutive years. 1969 Male Vocalist of the Year 1970 Male Vocalist of the Year 1972 Male Vocalist of the Year 1973 Male Vocalist of the Year 1974 Male Vocalist of the Year 1975