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1985-1986Best Performing Bands

Best Avant-Garde
Glass Eye

Timbuk3
The Pool
Daniel Johnston
Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue
B-Complex
Trained Ants
Scratch Acid
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Brave Combo
Happy Dagger
Lifeseyes
Creative Opportunity Orchestra
Cargo Cult
Technicolor Yawns

Best Blues
Omar & the Howlers

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Fabulous Thunderbirds
W.C. Clark Blues Revue
Lou Ann Barton Band
Angela Strehli Band
Kathy & the Kilowatts
The Antones
Rhythm Rats
Bobby Mack and Night Train

Best Country
Hickoids

Supernatural Family Band
Willie Nelson
Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys
Asleep at the Wheel
Lounge Lizards
Butch Hancock
Rusty Wier
Tex Thomas & the Danglin' Wranglers
Richard Patureau & the Bayou Bandits
Toshio Hirano
Geezinslaw Brothers
Al Dressen
Jerry Jeff Walker
Lost Gonzo Band

Best Folk
Daniel Johnston

Butch Hancock & Marce Lacouture
Nanci Griffith
Timbuk3
Lounge Lizards
Steve Fromholz
Darden Smith
Townes Van Zandt
Sue Young
Shake Russell
Bill Oliver
Bouree Texane
Lisa Gilkyson
Walter Hyatt
Two Nice Girls

Best Jazz
Kirk Whalum Group

Tomas Ramirez/Jazzmanian Devil
No Compromise
Trained Ants
Kellye Gray Band
Trik-Trax
Kaz Jazz Quartet
The Brew
Elouise Burrell & Trickle Down
Eric Johnson
Mitch Watkins Group
Extreme Heat
Beto y los Fairlanes
Michael Mordecai
Tony Campise

Best Latin
Ruben & Alfonso Ramos

Beto y los Fairlanes
Joe "King" Carrasco y las Coronas
Balamil
Latin Lovers
Little Joe y la Familia
Latin Tempo Combo
Salaman

Best New Music
Zeitgeist

Glass Eye
Timbuk3
Windows
Flex
Skank
Wild Seeds
Randy Franklin
Cargo Cult
Black Spring
B-Complex
51/50
Mitch Watkins Group
Year Zero

Best None of the Above
Extreme Heat

Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones
Lounge Lizards
Brave Combo
Tex Thomas & the Danglin' Wranglers
Elouise Burrell & Trickle Down
Technicolor Yawns
Rudi Dadd
Cul de Sac
Uranium Savages
Diana Cantu Band
Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm
Skank

Best Punk
Poison 13

Scratch Acid
Hickoids
Strappados
Cargo Cult
Offenders
Butthole Surfers
Circle Kaos
Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm
Jaws of Life

Best Reggae
Killer Bees

Pressure
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
I-Tex & the Frontier Dub Boys
Lotions
Brown DeCoux
Steel Power

Best Rock
14K

Van Wilks Band
True Believers
Doctors' Mob
Jam Scam
Eric Johnson
Flex
Commandos
Omar & the Howlers
Zeitgeist
Rhythm Rats
Watchtower
Joe Ely Band
Hot Pink
51/50

Best Roots Rock
True Believers

Tailgators
LeRoi Brothers
Commandos
Rhythm Rats
Omar & the Howlers
Pressure
Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones
Wild Seeds
Bobby Mack & Night Train
Evan Johns & the H-Bombs
Doctors' Mob
Lost Gonzo Band
Vanguards
Joe Ely

Best Soul
Ernie Sky & the K-Tels

Trik-Trax
W.C. Clark Blues Revue
Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm
Extreme Heat
Do Dat
Skank
Cul de Sac
Elouise Burrell & Trickle Down
Toby Anderson Band
Blue Mist
Wynnd

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