BACK TO TOP

1997-1998Best Performing Bands

Best Alternative/Punk
El Flaco

Sixteen Deluxe
Soak
Scabs
Ursa Major
Silver Scooter
Prima Donnas
Flock uh Hillbillies
Spoon
Dot

Best Blues
Storyville

Guy Forsyth Band
Toni Price
WC Clark
Jimmie Vaughan
Ian Moore
Big Foot Chester
Breedlove
Chris Duarte
Jake Andrews

Best Country
Don Walser

Derailers
Damnations
Kelly Willis
Reckless Kelly
Dale Watson
Junior Brown
Cornell Hurd
Janet Lynn & the Journeymen
Robert Earl Keen/Willie Nelson

Best Cover Band
The Recliners

Big Time
Dysfunction Junction
Nortons
SSIK
King Cheese
Atlantics
King Soul
The Grooves
Be Wires

Best Folk
TIE: Ana Egge and Asylum Street Spankers

Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Sara Hickman
Reckless Kelly
Kacy Crowley
Toni Price
Monte Montgomery
Butch Hancock
Polk Barton & Towhead
Shades of Pearl

Best Funk
Hot Buttered Rhythm

Scabs
Papa Mali & the Instigators
Sister 7
Ugly Americans
Junction
Big Game Hunter

Best Hard Rock
Pushmonkey

El Flaco
Soak
Vallejo
Supercharger
Human
Buick MacKane
Joe Ely
Ian Moore
Seed

Best Jazz
8 1/2 Souvenirs

Hot Buttered Rhythm
Jazz Pharaohs
Elias Haslanger
Millennium Swing
Lucky Strikes
Jon Blondell
Tony Campise
Merchants of Venus
Los Jazz Vatos

Best Lounge/Swing
The Recliners

Mr. Fabulous
8 1/2 Souvenirs
Lucky Strikes
Seth Walker
King Cheese
Ted Roddy's Tearjoint Troubadors
King Cheese
Scabs
Julianna Sheffield

Best Metal/Industrial
Soak

Terminal 46
Dangerous Toys
Pushmonkey
Skrew

Best Mexican Traditional/Folk
Tish Hinojosa

Ta Mere
Lourdes Perez
Centzotie
Correo Aereo

Best None of the Above
Asylum Street Spankers

Reckless Kelly
Velvet Hammer
Doak Short
Drums & Tuba
8 1/2 Souvenirs
Fabulous Jalapenos
Flametrick Subs
Gulf Coast Playboys
Ta Mere

Best Pop
Abra Moore

Silver Scooter
Quatropaw
Ugly Americans
Millennium Swing
Trish Murphy
Cotton Mather
Fastball
Javelin Boot
Sixteen Deluxe

Best Rock
Storyville

Vallejo
Pushmonkey
Breedlove
Sister 7
Ugly Americans
Sixteen Deluxe
The Sexton Sextet
George DeVore and the Roam
Julieann Banks

Best Roots Rock
Reckless Kelly

Damnations
LeRoi Brothers
George DeVore
Lee Ann Atherton
Derailers
Two Hoots and a Holler
Gourds
Storyville
Buick MacKane

Best Soul/Hip-Hop
MC Overlord

Big Game Hunter
Scabs
Hot Buttered Rhythm W.C. Clark
King Soul
Memphis Train
Soul Circus
Storyville
Short Fuse & Brotha K

Best Tejano/Conjunto
Los Pinkys

Little Joe y La Familia
Tish Hinojosa
Ruben Ramos
Flaco Jimenez

Best World Music
Ta Mere

Killer Bees
Govinda
Fabulous Jalapenos
Raggamassive
1001 Nights
Centzontie
Susanna Sharpe and Samba Police
Sambaxe
Two O'Clock Courage

Best Texas Recordings
Best Austin Musicians
NEWSLETTERS
One click gets you all the newsletters listed below

Breaking news, arts coverage, and daily events

Can't keep up with happenings around town? We can help.

Austin's queerest news and events

Eric Goodman's Austin FC column, other soccer news

All questions answered (satisfaction not guaranteed)

Information is power. Support the free press, so we can support Austin.   Support the Chronicle