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1988-1989Best Performing Bands

Best Avant-Garde
Glass Eye

Poi Dog Pondering
Shoulders
Ed Hall
Therapy Sisters
Timbuk 3
Butthole Surfers
Two Nice Girls
Miracle Room
Hearts & Minds

Best Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Mannish Boys
Angela Strehli
Marcia Ball
Omar & the Howlers
The Antones
W.C. Clark
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Lou Ann Barton
Solid Senders

Best Country
The Wagoneers

Asleep at the Wheel
Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Al Dressen's Super Swing Revue
Darden Smith
Teddy and the Tall Tops
Tony Perez
Lyle Lovett
Rosie Flores

Best Folk
Darden Smith

Celtic Stone
Butch Hancock
Alison Rogers
Two Nice Girls
Jimmy LaFave
Nanci Griffith
Hudson & Franke
Michelle Shocked
Linden Sherwin

Best Funk
Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm

Trik-Trax
Bizness
Do Dat
Extreme Heat
Slackface
Junior Medlow and the Bad Boys
Porsche

Best Jazz
Chris Duarte & Justus

Tomas Ramirez
Suzi Stern
Hearts & Minds
The Brew
Blue Mist
Beto y los Fairlanes
Alex Coke
Eric Johnson
Tony Campise
Kirk Whalum
The Stream

Best Latin
Quizumba

Beto y Los Fairlanes
Ruben Ramos and the Texas Revolution
Toqui Amaru
Joe "King" Carrasco
Flaco Jimenez
Little Joe y La Familia
Texana Dames
Suzanna Sharpe
Salsa

Best Metal/Hardcore
Raging Saint

Band From Hell
Dangerous Toys
Onyxx
Ed Hall
Agony Column
Butthole Surfers
Jackhammer
Hickoids
Lance Keltner

Best New Music
Poi Dog Pondering

WayOuts
Grains of Faith
Glass Eye
Chromatics
i2i
I-Tex
Two Nice Girls
The Reivers
Timbuk 3

Best None of the Above
Austin Lounge Lizards

3 Balls of Fire
Tex Thomas and His Danglin' Wranglers
Shoulders
Dan Del Santo
Zydeco Ranch
Poi Dog Pondering
Ponty Bone and the Squeezetones
Barnburners
Safer Rhodes Band

Best Pop
Timbuk 3

Javelin Boot
Reivers
Poi Dog Pondering
People's Choice
Grains of Faith
Water the Dog
Gina Fobia
Glass Eye
Duck Soup
Slash Cowboy
Pictures

Best Reggae
Michael E. Johnson and the Killer Bees

I-Tex
Spy vs. Spy
Pulsations
Steel Power
Dan Del Santo

Best Rock
Joe Ely

Raging Saint
Wild Seeds
Javelin Boot
Omar & the Howlers
True Believers
WayOuts
Ed Hall
Water the Dog
Timbuk 3
Eric Johnson

Best Roots Rock
Two Hoots & a Holler

Tailgators
Neptunes
LeRoi Brothers
Joe Ely
Teddy and the Tall Tops
Evan Johns
Roman Candles
Bill Carter and the Blame
Omar and the Howlers

Best Soul
W.C. Clark

Junior Medlow and the Bad Boys
Toby Anderson
Bizness
Trik-Trax
Extreme Heat
Angela Strehli
Blue Mist
Chill Factor
Stick People

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