Awards:

1989 Grand Ole Opry: Opry Membership (inducted 6/11/89)

1989 Music City News Awards: Star of Tommorow

1989 American Music Awards: Favorite New Artist

1990 Music City News Awards: Female Artist of the Year

1993 CMA Awards: Vocal Collaboration of the Year ("I Don't Need Your Rocking Chair")

1995 Nashville Music Awards: Best Country Album ("When Fallen Angels Fly")

1995 CMA Awards: Album of the year ("When Fallen Angels Fly")

1995 ACM Awards: Female Vocalist of the Year

1996 ACM Awards: Female Vocalist of the Year

1996 Nashville Music Awards: Female Vocalist of the Year

1996 CMA Awards: Female Vocalist of the Year

1996 Music City News Awards: Vocal Collaboration of the Year ("Go Rest High on that Mountain")

1997 Country Radio Awards: Female Vocalist of the Year

1997 Country Radio Awards: Album of the Year ("The Trouble with the Truth")

1997 Nashville Music Awards: Female Vocalist of the Year

1998 CMA Awards: Vocal Collaboration of the Year ("You Don't Seem to Miss Me")

1999 Grammy Awards: Country Collaboration ("Same Old Train")

1999 CMA Awards: Vocal Collaboration Collaboration ("My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man")

2002 Grand Ole Opry: Presented with her Opry Member Statue

2002 Prestonsburg, KY: Key to the City

2005 Georgia Music Hall of Fame: Inducted as a Performer