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1987-1988Best Performing Bands

Best Avant-Garde
Glass Eye

Miracle Room
Butthole Surfers
Two Nice Girls
Guardez Lou
Lifeseyes
Timbuk 3
Shoulders
Lucky Tailors
Ed Hall

Best Blues
Angela Strehli Band

Omar & the Howlers
W.C. Clark Blues Revue
Lou Ann Barton
Marcia Ball Band
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Junior Medlow & the Bad Boys
The Antones
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Kathy & the Kilowatts
Bobby Mack & Night Train
Mannish Boys

Best Country
Asleep at the Wheel

Wagoneers
Erik Hokkanen & the Offbeats
Teddy & the Tall Tops
Willie Nelson
Tony Perez
Alvin Crow
Lyle Lovett
Jimmie Gilmore
Hickoids
People's Choice
Bluebonnet Plague

Best Cover Band
Texas Weather

Realtyme
14K
Duck Soup
Doctors' Mob
Trik-Trax
Ro-Tel & the Hot Tomatoes
Torpedoes
Steinbergs

Best Folk
Darden Smith

Two Nice Girls
Nanci Griffith
Butch Hancock
Make Believers
Lyle Lovett
Lounge Lizards
Tim Henderson
Bobby Bridger
Julie Howard
Jimmy LaFave
Allen Damron

Best Funk
Bad Mutha Goose

Extreme Heat
Do Dat
Trik-Trax
Bizness
Slackface
Moving Parts
Elouise Burrell
Def MFs
Pressure

Best Jazz
Tomás Ramírez Tasmanian Devil

Mitch Watkins Group
Kirk Whalum & Group Session
Beto y los Fairlanes
No Compromise
Tony Campise
Trained Ants
Blue Mist
Joe Morales
Eric Johnson

Best Latin
Quizumba

Ruben Ramos
Beto y los Fairlanes
Little Joe y la Familia
Moving Force
Toqui Amaru
Dan del Santo
Alma \ Johnny Delgollado
Mariachi Estrella

Best Metal/Hardcore
Butthole Surfers

Doctors' Mob
Raging Saint
Agony Column
Dangerous Toys
Watchtower
Will and the Kill
Band From Hell
Onyxx
Van Wilks

Best New Music
The Reivers

Tanz Waffen
Conquest
WayOuts
Wild Seeds
Shoulders
Glass Eye
Enigma
Timbuk 3
Two Nice Girls

Best None of the Above
Austin Lounge Lizards

Will and the Kill
Ponty Bone and the Squeezetones
Dan del Santo
Dino Lee
Tex Thomas and the Danglin' Wranglers
Two Nice Girls
Butthole Surfers
Ro-Tel & the Hot Tomatoes
Shoulders

Best Pop
Timbuk 3

The Reivers
Gina Fobia and the Symptoms
Torpedoes
Wild Seeds
Extreme Heat
Zulu Time
Big Bam Boo
Year Zero
Hotcakes

Best Reggae
Killer Bees

I-Tex
Pressure
Steel Power
Dan Del Santo
Odd Wattage

Best Rock
The Joe Ely Band

True Believers
The Reivers
Omar & the Howlers
Will and the Kill
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Van Wilks
Evan Johns & the H-Bombs
Eric Johnson
Raging Saint
Texas Instruments
LeRoi Brothers

Best Roots Rock
Teddy & the Tall Tops

Tycoons
Tail Gators
Two Hoots & a Holler
Joe Ely Band
Omar & the Howlers
Resistors
LeRoi Brothers
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Bill Carter & the Blame

Best Soul
W.C. Clark Blues Revue

Junior Medlow & the Bad Boys
Elouise Burrell
Trik-Trax
Toby Anderson Band
Bizness
Blue Mist
Do Dat
Extreme Heat
Angela Strehli Band

Best of the Year
Best Texas Recordings
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