 In turn, members of the band—lead guitarist Henry Vestine, slide guitarist Alan Wilson and bassist Larry Taylor—contributed to Sunnyland Slim's Liberty Records album "Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On" (1969), which also featured Mick Taylor.He was a recipient of a 1988 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.He died in March 1995 in Chicago, after complications from renal failure, at the age of 88.