[1][2] Their 2021 release, Holler If You Hear Me, reached number three on the US Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart.
Bluesified, their debut album composed entirely of cover versions, was released by Cold Wind Records in June 2008.
[5] Cold Wind were based in Minneapolis, but the record label's head died and Altered Five were forced to move to another local distributor.
[7] The group then signed to Blind Pig Records, who had been recently acquired by the Orchard, a subsidiary of Sony Music.
[4] Ten Thousand Watts reached number 10 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart.
[3] A track from that album, "Great Minds Drink Alike", won first place in the blues category of the International Songwriting Competition.
He has also served as a board member of the Music Publishers Association of the United States since 2011 and, in 2010, was recognized as one of the Milwaukee Business Journal's '40 under 40.