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1985-1986Best Texas Recordings

Album of the Year
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Soul To Soul

Big Guitars From Texas, Trash, Twang, and Thunder
Zeitgeist, Translate Slowly
Dino Lee, King of White Trash
Skank, I Never Said That
Bands on the Block compilation with Doctors' Mob, Wild Seeds, Go Dog Go, True Believers, Zeitgeist, Pez, etc.
Killer Bees, Scratch the Surface
Bobby Mack and Night Train
Butch Hancock and Marce Lacouture, Yella Rose
Doctors' Mob, Headache Machine
Kirk Whalum, Floppy Disc
Lonnie Mack, Strike Like Lightning
Glitch Sampler: Ten Austin Groups in Black & White
Hickoids, We're Only In It For the Corn
Tex Thomas and the Danglin' Wranglers, Dare To Dangle
Big Boys, No Matter How Long the Line Is At the Cafeteria, There's Always a Seat
Tailgators, Swamp Rock
The Sweaters
Charlie Sexton, Pctures For Pleasure

Best EP
Windows, Now Under New Ownership

Extreme Heat
Randy Franklin
Dan Del Santo, Make It Right
Poison 13, First You Dream, Then You Die
Roky Erickson, Clear Night For Love
Butthole Surfers, Cream Corn
Rudi Dadd, Rudi's Dead
Texas Instruments, More Texas Instruments
Joe "King" Carrasco, Viva San Antone
LeRoi Brothers, Fight Fire With Fire
Scratch Acid

Best Single
Sarah Brown, "Four Hours Sleep"/"Bad Boy's Pride"

Mike Alvarez, "The Night I Watched You Sleep"
Ponty Bone, "Texas Jumbo Shrimp"/Frio City Road Polka"
Omar & the Howlers, "Border Girl"
Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Change It"/"Little Sister"
Junior Brown, "Gotta Get Up Every Morning"/"Too Many Nights in a Roadhouse"
Elouise Burrell, "Cream Always Rises"/"Singer in a R&B Band"
Charlie Sexton, "Beat's So Lonely"
Appels, "Tricia"/"I'll Be There Tonight"
51/50, "A Matter of Time"/"New Beginnings"
Richard Patureau & the Bayou Bandits, "Never Liked to Waltz Anyway"/"Boudreaux's Daughter"
Commandos, "Psycho"/"May Baby Loves Monster Movies"
Jimmie Gilmore Band, "She's All Grown Up"/"Honky Tonk Masquerade"

Song of the Year
Omar & the Howlers, "Border Girl"

Charlie Sexton, "Beat's So Lonely"
SRV and Double Trouble, "Change It"
Bobby Mack and Night Train, "Piece Of My Heart"
Roky Erickson, "Don't Slander Me"
Dino Lee, "Everybody Get Some"
Zeitgeist, "Things Don't Change"
SRV and Double Trouble, "Say What"
Dan Del Santo, "Love Will Make It Right"
Richard Patureau & the Bayou Bandits, "Never Like to Waltz Anyway"

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