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1986-1987Best Performing Bands

Best Avant-Garde
Miracle Room

Glass Eye
Trained Ants
Zydeco Ranch
Timbuk3
Minus Grace
Butthole Surfers
Progress
Basically Speaking
Lifeseyes

Best Blues
TIE: W.C. Clark Blues Revue and The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Omar and the Howlers
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Angela Strehli Band
The Antones
Kathy and the Kilowatts
Chris Holzhaus Band
Bill Carter and the Blame
Lou Ann Barton Band

Best Country
Alvin Crow & His Pleasant Valley Boys

Supernatural Family Band
Asleep at the Wheel
Teddy and the Tall Tops
Lyle Lovett
Rusty Wier
Hickoids
Joe Ely
Willie Nelson
Richard Patureau and the Bayou Bandits
Butch Hancock
Debonaires
Eric Hokkanen and the Offbeats
Steve Fromholtz
Nanci Griffith

Best Folk
Nanci Griffith

Darden Smith
Minus Grace
2 Nice Girls
Butch Hancock
Belt Buckle Band
Timbuk 3
Townes Van Zandt
Mark Luke Daniels
Lounge Lizards
Lyle Lovett
Walter Hyatt and Champ Hood

Best Funk
Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm

Extreme Heat
Do Dat
Trik-Trax
Elouise Burrell's New Mix
Wynnd
Moving Parts
K-Tels
Skank
Cargo Cult

Best Jazz
Kirk Whalum and Group Session

No Compromise
Tomas Ramirez/Jazzmanian Devil
Trained Ants
Eric Johnson
Kelleye Gray Band
Mitch Watkins Group
The Brew
Trik-Trax
Kaz Jazz Quartet

Best Latin
Little Joe y La Familia

Beto y los Fairlanes
Ruben Ramos
Quizumba
Latin Lovers
Joe "King" Carrasco y las Cornonas
Tomas Ramirez
Steve Jordan
Los Romanceros
Traci Lamar

Best Metal/Hardcore
Scratch Acid

Poison 13
Watchtower
Butthole Surfers
Agony Column
Not for Sale
Cargo Cult
Doctors' Mob
Inbred Janitors

Best New Music
TIE: Zeitgeist and Timbuk 3

Will and the Kill
Wild Seeds
Hundredth Monkey
Tanz Waffen
Big Bam Boo
Glass Eye
Cargo Cult
Beat Meters

Best None of the Above
Tex Thomas & the Danglin' Wranglers

Extreme Heat
Dan Del Santo
Dino Lee
Lounge Lizards
Tailgators
Air Head
Zydeco Ranch
Timbuk 3
Scratch Acid

Best Pop
Timbuk 3

Torpedoes
14K
Will and the Kill
Wynnd
Extreme Heat
Trik-Trax
Stuck in Neutral
Lifeseyes
Duck Soup

Best Reggae
Killer Bees

Pressure
I-Tex
Dan Del Santo
Steel Power

Best Rock
14K

Will and the Kill
Fabulous Thunderbirds
True Believers
Hell's Cafe
Texas Instruments
Van Wilks Band
Torpedoes
Zeitgeist
Evan Johns and the H-Bombs

Best Roots Rock
Tailgators

True Believers
Hell's Cafe
Will and the Kill
Teddy and the Tall Tops
Evan Johns and the H-Bombs
Joe Ely Band
Zydeco Ranch
Doctors' Mob
Rhythm Rats

Best Soul
W.C. Clark Blues Revue

Elouise Burrell's New Mix
Trik-Trax
Do Dat
Wynnd
Bad Mutha Goose and the Brothers Grimm
K-Tels
Toby Anderson Band
Ernie Sky Orquestra
Blue Mist

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