42nd Annual Austin Music Awards

1989-1990 › Best Performing Bands

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Band of the Decade
The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Joe Ely Band
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Timbuk3
Asleep at the Wheel
Butthole Surfers`
Big Boys
Poi Dog Pondering
Watch Tower
Austin Lounge Lizards
True Believers

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Best Avant-Garde
Glass Eye

Shoulders
Poi Dog Pondering
Jo Carol Pierce & Friends
Liquid Mice
Water the Dog
State of Mind
Stick People
Anneke
Bouffant Jellyfish
Two Nice Girls

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Best Blues
W.C. Clark Blues Revue

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Solid Senders
Ian Moore & Moment's Notice
The Antones
Mannish Boys
Lou Ann Barton Band
Omar & the Howlers
Mel Brown
Fabulous Thunderbirds

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Best Country
Asleep at the Wheel

Jimmie Dale Gilmore & the Continental Drifters
Chaparral
Teddy & the Talltops
Kelly Willis & Radio Ranch
Rosie Flores
Tish Hinojosa
Wagoneers
Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys
Gary P. Nunn
Dickie Lee Erwin

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Best Cover Band
Duck Soup

Pictures
Big Time
The Bizness
Ro-Tel & the Hot Tomatoes
Trik Trax
The Rave
The Daddios
Hot Cakes
Johnny Dee & Rocket 88's

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Best Folk
Darden Smith

Two Nice Girls
Barnburners
Butch Hancock & the Sunpots
David Halley Band
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Poi Dog Pondering
Nanci Griffith
Betty Elders
Jimmy LaFave

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Best Funk
Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm

Bouffant Jellyfish
Trik Trax
The Bizness
Retarded Elf
Extreme Heat
Do Dat
Stick People

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Best Jazz

The Brew
Tomas Ramirez
Chris Duarte & Arson
Mitch Watkins Group
Tony Campise
Color
Kirk Whalum
Creative Opportunity Orchestra
Kellye Gray Band

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Best Latin
Beto y los Fairlanes

One Touch
Suzanna Sharoe & Samba Police
Little Joe y la Familia
Ruben Ramos & the Texas Revolution
Tish Hinojosa
Toqui Amaru
Los Romanceros
Texana Dames
Sarita Rodriguez

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Best Metal/Hardcore
Dangerous Toys

Raging Saint
Agony Column
Near Dark
Watch Tower
Ed Hall
Band From Hell
Onyxx
Dread
Young Thunder

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Best New Music
Poi Dog Pondering

Glass Eye
State of Mind
Shoulders
Stick People
Grains of Faith
Rain
Hearts & Minds
Anneke

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Best None of the Above
Austin Lounge Lizards

Jo Carol Pierce & Friends
Poi Dog Pondering
Tex Thomas & the Danglin' Wranglers
Barnburners
Zydeco Ranch
Shoulders
Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones
Grains of Faith
Uranium Savages

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Best Pop
Water the Dog

Grains of Faith
Timbuk3
Javelin Boot
David Halley Band
The Reivers
Pictures
Third Person
Poi Dog Pondering
Last Straw

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Best Reggae
Michael E. Johnson and the Killer Bees

Spy vs. Spy
I-Tex
Pulsations
The Joneses
Steel Power
Wajumbe
House In Orbit

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Best Rock
Joe Ely

Water the Dog
The Reivers
Hand of Glory
Near Dark
Buick MacKane
Bill Carter & the Blame
Butch Hancock & the Sunspots
Raging Saint
Dangerous Toys

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Best Roots Rock
LeRoi Brothers

Tailgators
The Neptunes
Skeletones
Bill Carter & the Blame
Two Hoots & a Holler
Evan Johns & the H-Bombs
High Noon
The Vanguards
The Joe Ely Band
Suzy Elkins