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1995-1996Best Performing Bands

Best Alternative/Punk
Sixteen Deluxe

Fastball
Spoon
Sincola
Fuckemos
Seed
Gals Panic
El Flaco
Stretford
Starfish
Ed Hall
Pocket FishRmen
Hormones
Miss Universe
Pork

Best Blues
Toni Price

W.C. Clark
Guy Forsyth
Sue Foley
Ian Moore
Jimmie Vaughan
The Antones
Chris Duarte
Lou Ann Barton
Miss Lavelle White

Best Country
Don Walser's Pure Texas Band

Junior Brown
Derailers
Wayne Hancock
Dale Watson
Christine Albert
Asleep at the Wheel
Toni Price
Joe Ely
Kelly Willis

Best Cover Band
TIE: Mystic Knights of the Sea, Diamond Smugglers and Diamond Smugglers

Naughty Ones
SSIK
Derailers
Flounders without Eyes
The Antones
Booze Weasels
Brew
Jazz Pharaohs
Memphis Train

Best Folk
Caryl P. Weiss

Toni Price
Asylum Street Spankers
Bad Livers
Tish Hinojosa
Nanci Griffith
Butch Hancock
Austin Lounge Lizards
Michael Fracasso
Sara Hickman

Best Funk
Ugly Americans

Gingbreadmen
Little Sister
Retarded Elf
Vallejo
Rhythm Child
Extreme Heat
Cactus Smack Conspiracy
Lee Persons
Killer Bees

Best Hard Rock
Billy White

Pushmonkey
Sunflower
Dangerous Toys
Black Pearl
Ian Moore
Little Sister
Seed
Buick MacKane
Ed Hall

Best Hip Hop
MC Overlord

MC Truth
Ross Hogg
Retarded Elf
Brothers Cup
CBS
D'Zyna
Gingbreadmen
Little Sister
Strat2G
Short Fuse & Brother K
Spinner T

Best Jazz
8 1/2 Souvenirs

Kyle Turner
Jazz Pharaohs
Lucky Strikes
Tony Campise
Naughty Ones
Elias Haslanger
Euripides Pants
Jazz Vatos
The Brew

Best Metal/Industrial
Auschwitz 46

Skrew
Pushmonkey
Fuckemos
Butthole Surfers
Ed Hall
Burn
Dangerous Toys
Agony Column
Nipple 5

Best Mexican Traditional/Folk
Tish Hinojosa

Correo Aereo
Flaco Jimenez
Santiago Jimenez
Los Pinkys
Texana Dames
Texas Tornados
Lourdes Perez
Mariachi Estrella
Valerio Longoria

Best None of the Above
Asylum Street Spankers

Austin Lounge Lizards
Beached Buoys
Happy Valley
Naughty Ones
Bad Livers
Rhythm Rats
8 1/2 Souvenirs
Earthpig & Fire
Herman the German

Best Pop
TIE: Fastball and Wannabes

Johnny Goudie
Cotton Mather
Fabu
8 1/2 Souvenirs
David Garza
Javelin Boot
Spoon
Banana Blender Surprise

Best Rock
Ian Moore Band

Storyville
Joe Ely Band
Little Sister
Wannabes
Ugly Americans
Sunflower
Sixteen Deluxe
Charlie Sexton Sextet
Seed

Best Roots Rock
LeRoi Brothers

Monte Warden
Rick Broussard & Shadowmen
Marti Brom
Joe Ely
Gourds
Asylum Street Spankers
Derailers
Ted Roddy
Bill Carter & the Blame

Best Soul
Storyville

W.C. Clark
Memphis Train
Miss Lavelle White
Toby Anderson
Tie: Little Sister/E.R. Shorts/The Brew
Tie: Ugly Americans/Lee Person

Best Tejano/Conjunto
TIE: Flaco Jiménez and Los Pinkys

Ruben Ramos
Santiago Jimenez
Tish Hinojosa
Selena
Texana Dames
Emilio
Rick Trevino
Little Joe y la Familia

Best World Music
Killer Bees

Susanna Sharpe & Samba Police
Horsies
Espiritu
Brave Combo
Correo Aereo
Cula du Café
Tribal Nation
Root 1
East Babylon Symphony

Best Texas Recordings
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