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1981-1982Best Performing Bands

Best Blues
The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Extreme Heat
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Cobras
W.C. Clark Blues Revue
The LeRoi Brothers
Angela Strehli Band
Kingpins
Diana Cantu & the Southside Band
Big Boys
Delbert McClinton
The Mighty Souls
Omar & the Howlers
George Underwood & Blues Groove
The Night Cats

Best Chicano
Beto y los Fairlanes

Little Joe, Johnny y la Familia
Ruben Ramos & the Mexican Revolution
Frank "Jalepeno" Rodarte & the Del-Kings
Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns
Flaco Jimenez
Salaman
Big Carlos & the Minority Machine
Los No. 2 Dinners
Esteban Jordan
Johnny Degollado
Street People
Latin Image
Joe Bravo
Bert Rivera

Best Country
Rank & File

Joe Ely Band
Asleep at the Wheel
Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys
Willie Nelson
Kenneth Threadgill & Bill Neely
Jess DeMaine
Tex Thomas & His Danglin' Wranglers
Supernatural Family Band
Gary P. Nunn & Sons of the Bunkhouse
Bert Rivera & the Nightriders
Jerry Jeff Walker
Doug Sahm
Steven Fromholz

Best Folk
Butch Hancock & Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Uncle Walt's Band
Rank & File
Grimalkin
Shake Russell & Dana Cooper
Eric Johnson
Eaglebone Whistle
Lucinda
Caravan
Kenneth Threadgill & Bill Neely
Jerry & Nancy Stevens
CPR
Bobby Bridger
Don Sanders
Nanci Griffith
Vince Bell
Cheezmo Schmaltz

Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
Van Wilks Band

The Skunks
Nasty Habits
Rockin' Devils
Heyoka
Eric Johnson
Jet
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Roky Erickson
Stephen Doster & Scissors
Rabbit
The Explosives
Agent I
14K

Best Jazz
Passenger

Extreme Heat
Beto y los Fairlanes
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Christy Palumbo & Jazz-Me Blues
Tomas Ramirez
Asleep at the Wheel
New Visions Ensemble
Eloise Burrell
Suzie Stern & the Austin Jazz All-Stars
The Rich Harney Trio
The Creative Opportunity Orchestra
Minor Miracle

Best New Wave/Punk
Standing Waves

Big Boys
The Jitters
D-Day
X-Spand-X
The Skunks
The Explosives
Joe "King" Carrasco y los Crowns
Jerryskids
Rank & File
The Dark
The Uranium Savages
The Judys
Brave Combo
The Dicks
Radio Planets
Butthole Surfers

Best None of the Above
Extreme Heat

The Pool
Brave Combo
Octave Doctors
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Rank & File
Lotions
The LeRoi Brothers
The Lift
Uranium Savages
Delta
Pressure
Jerryskids
The Jitters
The Supernatural Family Band
Radio Free Europe
The Judys
UHF

Best Soft Rock/Easy Listening
Christopher Cross

Shake Russell & Dana Cooper
Uncle Walt's Band
The Pool
Backbone
The Stains
Judy Price Band
Blue Mist
Passenger

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