42nd Annual Austin Music Awards

1983-1984 › Best Performing Bands

SHOW DESCRIPTION HIDE DESCRIPTION

Best Avant-Garde
The Pool

Creative Oppotunity Orchestra
Dan Del Santo & His Professors
Liquid Mice
Trained Ants
Brave Combo
Tribe
Chinanine
Supernatural Family Band
Meat Joy
Powerchanters

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Best Bluegrass
Erwin O. Prather

Ramblers
Alfalfa Brothers
Lounge Lizards
Dark Mesa
John Clay
Grassfire

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Best Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Fabulous Thunderbirds
Angela Strehli Band
WC Clark Blues Revue
Omar & the Howlers
Blues Boy Hubbard & the Jets
Cobras
Bobby Mack & Night Train
Marcia Ball Band
Lou Ann Barton

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Best Country
Supernatural Family Band

Rank and File
Austin Roadhouse Band
Willie Nelson
Asleep at the Wheel
Al Dressen
Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley
Tex Thomas & the Danglin' Wranglers
Stackabones
Billy Joe Shaver

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Best Folk
Grimalkin

Butch Hancock
Lucinda
Jimmie Gilmore
Townes Van Zandt
Supernatural Family Band
Guanella Pass
Uncle Walt's Band
Takiy Orqo
Stackabones

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Best Funk
Extreme Heat

Big Boys
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Wynnd
Minor Miracle
Random Culture
Coupe De Ville
Moving Products
Tribe
Ernie Sky & the K-Tels

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Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
Van Wilks Band

Watchtower
14K
Animal Justice
Jam Scam
Big Boys
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Banzai Kik
Roky Erickson
Charlie Sexton & the Eager Beaver Boys

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Best Jazz
Tomàs Ramirez

Passenger
Beto y los Fairlanes
Trained Ants
Eric Johnson & the Avenue
Suzie Stern
Freefall
Kirk Whalum Group
Kaz Jazz Quartet
Take Four

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Best Latin
Beto y los Fairlanes

Little Joe, Johnny y la Familia
Ruben Ramos
Flaco Jimenez
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Joe "King" Carrasco y las Coronas
Takiy Orqo
Tomas Ramirez Quartet
Street People
Brave Combo
Pressure

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Best New Wave
D-Day

X-Spand-X
Max & the Makeups
Standing Waves
Joe "King" Carassco & the Crowns
Effect
Jesse Sublett's Secret Six
Vital Signs
Love Pretzels
The Lift

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Best Punk/Hardcore
Big Boys

Butthole Surfers
Dicks
Millions of Dead Cops
Offenders
Scratch Acid
Max & the Makeups
Meat Joy
Jitters
Technicolor Yawns
Eager Beaver Boys

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Best Reggae
Pressure

Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Lotions
Killer Bees
Rudi Dadd & His All-Boy Band
St. Croix Philharmonic
Housewives' Choice
Extreme Heat

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Best Rockabilly/50s Rock & Roll
LeRoi Brothers

Charlie Sexton & the Eager Beaver Boys
Whoa! Trigger
Johnny Dee & the Rocket 88s
Vanguards
Joe Ely
Teddy Boys
Quiffs
Rock-a-dials
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble