Rector's personal credits include being nominated for the 2000 W. C. Handy Award for Good Day For The Blues, recorded by Ruth Brown, as well as songs done by The Band, Lonnie Mack, Maria Muldaur, Lacy J. Dalton, and Bobbie Keyes (with Keith Richards in "Cheap Winos"). His song Darlene shot to number one with T. Graham Brown. He is widely acclaimed for his blues guitar style, playing with the Nashville band, "The Nerve," for ten years, followed by stints with Tom T. Hall, Dobie Gray, Lonnie Mack and Tony Joe White. A rare honor was achieved by gifting Nelson Mandela with Streets Of Fire, written with Dobie Gray, who personally presented the song in Africa..

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