the special guest on Larry Monroe's farewell broadcast of Blue Monday, which he hosted on radio station KUT in Austin, Texas, for nearly 30 years. Cotton's studio album Giant, released by Alligator Records in late September 2010, was nominated for a Grammy Award. His album Cotton Mouth Man, released by Alligator on May 7, 2013, was also a Grammy nominee. It includes guest appearances by Gregg Allman, Joe Bonamassa, Ruthie Foster, Delbert McClinton, Warren Haynes, Keb Mo, Chuck Leavell and Colin Linden. Cotton played harmonica on "Matches Don't Burn Memories" on the debut album by the Dr. Izzy Band, Blind & Blues Bound, released in June 2013. In 2014, Cotton won a Blues Music Award for Traditional Male Blues Artist and was also nominated in the category Best Instrumentalist – Harmonica. Cotton's touring band included the guitarist and vocalist Tom Holland, the vocalist Darrell Nulisch, the bassist Noel Neal (brother of the blues guitarist and harmonica player Kenny Neal) and the drummer Jerry Porter. Death Cotton died of pneumonia on March 16, 2017, at the age of 81, at a medical center in Austin, Texas and was buried on July 11, 2017 in Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Musical company Cotton had worked with many prominent artists, including: Gregg Allman William "Billy Boy" Arnold Elvin Bishop Mike Bloomfield Joe Bonamassa Paul Butterfield Grateful Dead Pat Hare Howlin' Wolf Janis Joplin B.B. King Freddie King Alexis Korner Steve Miller Charlie Musselwhite Quicksilver Messenger Service Keith Richards Todd Rundgren Santana Willie "Big Eyes" Smith Otis Spann Taj Mahal Big Mama Thornton Jimmie Vaughan Joe Louis Walker Muddy Waters Sonny Boy Williamson Johnny Winter Discography 1965: Chris Barber Presents Jimmy Cotton, and Chris Barber Presents Jimmy Cotton – 2 (two separate 45rpm EPs with Barber's British jazz and blues band) 1966: Chicago/The Blues/Today!, vol. 2 (Vanguard) 1967: Seems Like Yesterday Live @ New Penelope Cafe, Montreal, Canada ( Just A Memory JAM 9138-2) 1967: The James Cotton Blues Band (Verve) 1968: Cut You Loose! (Vanguard) 1968: Pure Cotton (Verve) 1968: Cotton in Your Ears (Verve) 1970: Taking Care of Business (Capitol) 1974: 100% Cotton, with Matt "Guitar" Murphy (Buddah) 1975: High Energy (Buddah) 1976: Live & on the Move (Buddah) 1984: High Compression (Alligator) 1986: Live from Chicago: Mr. Superharp Himself (Alligator) 1987: Take Me Back (Blind Pig), reissued on vinyl, 2009 1988: Live at Antone's (Antone's) 1990: Harp Attack!, with Carey Bell,