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1996-1997Best Performing Bands

Best Alternative/Punk
Spoon

Sincola
Butthole Surfers
Sunflower
Pushmonkey
El Flaco
Park
Fastball
Motards
Sixteen Deluxe
Fuckemos
Ugly Americans
Tallboy
Lord High Fixers
Flametrick Subs

Best Country
Junior Brown

Don Walser's Pure Texas Band
Dale Watson
Derailers
Kelly Willis
Willie Nelson
Wayne Hancock
Chris Wall
Lyle Lovett
Libbi Bosworth

Best Cover Band
The Recliners

Atlantic Soul Revue
Mr. Fabulous & Casino Royale
Diamond Smugglers
Booze Weasels
King Cheese
Tie: Taboo/The Grooves
SSIK
Tie: Jumpstart/Skyline

Best Folk
Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Asylum Street Spankers
The Gourds
Shawn Colvin
Threadgill's Troubadors
Jimmy LaFave
Michele Solberg
Tish Hinojosa
Toni Price
Sara Hickman

Best Hard Rock
Pushmonkey

Billy White Trio
El Flaco
Sunflower
Vallejo
Buick MacKane
Storyville
Dangerous Toys
Butthole Surfers
Ian Moore Band

Best Hip Hop
MC Overlord

Retarted Elf
CKC & Li'l Black
Tie: Papa Mali & the Instigators/Nonymous
D'Zyne
Big Game Hunters
Gingbreadmen
Tie: Ugly Americans/DJ Snotty

Best Jazz
8 1/2 Souvenirs

The Brew
Elias Haslanger
Lucky Strikes
Tony Campise
Jazz Pharaohs
Kyle Turner
Julie Burrell
Mitch Watkins Trio
Tie: Paul Glasse/Golden Arm Trio

Best Lounge/Swing
Mr. Fabulous & Casino Royale

Recliners
8 1/2 Souvenirs
Lucky Strikes
The Scabs
Naughty Ones
Blue Celestial Turks
Tie: Bobby Doyle/Jay Clark
King Cheese

Best Metal/Industrial
Fuckemos

Pushmonkey
Dangerous Toys
Plowman
Terminal 46
The Adults
Soak
Tungsten Coil
Human
Lizbomb

Best Mexican Traditional/Folk
Tish Hinojosa

Flaco Jimenez
Correo Aereo
Mariachi Estrellita
Son Yuma
Lourdes Perez
Ruben Ramos
Texas Tornados
Los Pinkys
Centzontle

Best None of the Above
Asylum Street Spankers

Mr. Pink & the Fuzzy Wigglies
8 1/2 Souvenirs
Flametrick Subs
Austin Lounge Lizards
Earthpig & Fire
Jubilettes
The Gourds
Bad Livers
Drums & Tuba

Best Pop
Ugly Americans

Wannabes
Sunshine
Fastball
Dah-veed
Bongo Hate
Lisa Tingle
Silver Scooter
8 1/2 Souvenirs
Tie: Quatropaw/Cotton Mather

Best Rock
Storyville

Ian Moore Band
Pushmonkey
Breedlove
Sunflower
Vallejo
Billy White Trio
Buick MacKane
El Flaco
Lisa Tingle Project

Best Roots Rock
LeRoi Brothers

The Gourds
Loose Diamonds
Tie: High Noon/Joe Ely/Two Hoots & a Holler
Tie: Derailers/George Devore/Monte Warden/Junior Brown

Best Soul/Funk
Ugly Americans

Sister 7
Papa Mali & the Instigators
Gingbreadmen
Killer Bees
Storyville
Atlantic Soul Revue
Tie: Breedlove/D'Zyne/King Soul/MC Overlord

Best Tejano/Conjunto
Los Pinkys

Flaco Jimenez
Texas Tornadoes
Tish Hinojosa
Little Joe y la Familia
Ruben Ramos
La Tropa F
Emilio
Johnny Degollado
Mingo Salvidar

Best World Music
Killer Bees

Papa Mali & the Instigators
Ta Mere
Son Yuma
Sambaxe
Root 1
Susanna Sharpe & Samba Police
Two O'Clock Courage
Raggamassive
Austin Klezmorim

Best Texas Recordings
Best Austin Musicians
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