RUNNERS-UP: The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Butt Rockin’; Big Boys, Industry Standard; Joe Ely, Live Shots; Jerryskids, What Can You Say? How Will They Take It?; Christopher Cross; The Pool, Pool 2; Joe “King” Carrasco & the Crowns; Delbert McClinton, Plain’ From the heart; Eaglebone Whistle; Uranium Savages, Radio Active; Secret Science, Pound Out; The Judys, Washarama; The Austin Christmas Collection; ZZ Top, El Loco; Shake Russell & Dana Cooper, Coming Home; Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, That’s Life in the Big City; Butch Hancock, Firewater Seeks Its Own Level; Kenneth Threadgill, Silver-Haired Daddy; Bobby Bridger, Heal in the Wisdom

This article appears in March 5 • 1982 and March 5 • 1982 (Cover).

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