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The members of the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up in Memphis, Tennessee, to foster the blues and its heritage, have nominated James for a Blues Music Award nearly every year since its founding in 1980 ; and she has received some form of Blues Female Artist of the Year award 14 times since 1989, continuously from 1999 to 2007.

In addition, the albums Life, Love, & The Blues ( 1999 ), Burnin ' Down The House ( 2003 ), and Let's Roll ( 2004 ) were awarded Soul / Blues Album of the Year, and in 2001 she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.