RUNNERS-UP: The Reivers, “In Your Eyes”; Joe Ely, “Lord of the Highway”; Timbuk 3, “All I Want for Christmas (Is World Peace)”; Big Bam Boo, “This Might Be the Big One”; Rhythm Rats, “I Wanna Spend the Night With Vanna White”; Joe Ely, “My Baby Thinks She’s French”; Ron Rogers and the White Slave Boys, “My Ex Is On X”; Clay Baker, “Honky Tonk Heart”; Omar & the Howlers, “Dancing in the Canebreak”
This article appears in March 11 • 1988.
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