42nd Annual Austin Music Awards

1984-1985 › Best Performing Bands

SHOW DESCRIPTION HIDE DESCRIPTION

Best Avant-Garde
Meat Joy

The Pool
Trained Ants
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue
Glass Eye
B-Complex
Butthole Surfers
Brave Combo
Secret Six

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Best Bluegrass
Austin Lounge Lizards

Tex Sweeney and the Grassmatics
Alfalfa Brothers

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Best Blues
Omar & the Howlers

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Angela Strehli Band
W.C. Clark Blues Revue
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Kathy and the Kilowatts
Bobby Mack and Night Train
Lou Ann Barton
The Antones
Poison 13

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Best Country
Supernatural Family Band

Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys
Willie Nelson
True Believers
Hickoids
Tex Thomas & the Danglin' Wranglers
Billy Joe Shaver
George Strait
Toshio Hirano
Al Dressen

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Best Folk
Grimalkin

Bourree Texane
Butch Hancock
Townes Van Zandt
Nina Katrina
Nanci Griffith
Meat Joy
Walter Hyatt
Jimmie Gilmore
Austin Lounge Lizards

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Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
Van Wilks Band

Watchtower
Offenders
Triple XXX
14K
Roky Erickson
Ian Ripper
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Jam Scam
Poison 13

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Tomas Ramirez Quartet
Mitch Watkins Group
Trained Ants
Beto y los Fairlanes
Non-Ego Jazz Orchestra
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Elouise Burrell and Trickle Down
Kaz Jazz Quartet
Trik-Trax

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Best Latin
Beto y los Fairlanes

Little Joe, Johnny y la Familia
Ruben Ramos and Texas Revolution
Salaman
Flaco Jimenez
Joe "King" Carrasco y las Coronas

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Best New Wave
Zeitgeist

Dada Curve
Secret Six
Joe "King" Carrasco and the Crowns
Technicolor Yawns
Glass Eye
B-Complex
Optimystics
Meat Joy
The Pool

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Best None of the Above
Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue

Lounge Lizards
Meat Joy
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Elouise Burrell and Trickle Down
Supernatural Family Band
Technicolor Yawns
Doctors' Mob
Cul de Sac
Extreme Heat

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Best Punk/Hardcore
Big Boys

Poison 13
Butthole Surfers
Offenders
Meat Joy
Scratch Acid
Jaws of Life
Technicolor Yawns
Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue
The Dicks

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Best Reggae
Pressure

Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure
Elouise Burrell and Trickle Down
Killer Bees
Lotions
I-Tex and the Frontier Dub Boys

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Best Rock
14K

Joe Ely
Austin All-Stars
Bobby Mack and Night Train
Debussy Fields
Commandos
Van Wilks Band
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
LeRoi Brothers
Jam Scam

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Best Rockabilly/50s Rock & Roll
LeRoi Brothers

Vanguards
Tail Gators
Johnny Dee and the Rocket 88s
Omar and the Howlers
Commandos
Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue
Joe Ely
Bobby Mack and Night Train
Charlie Sexton and the Sextones