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Austin Music Awards

2006-2007 › Best Performing Bands

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Best Bluegrass
South Austin Jug Band

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Bob Schneider's Bluegrass Massacre
Sarah Jarosz
The Gourds
The Weary Boys
White Ghost Shivers
The Hudsons
Reckless Kelly
The Greencards
Onion Creek Crawdaddies

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Best Blues
Gary Clark Jr.

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Carolyn Wonderland
Miss Lavelle White
Seth Walker
Eric Johnson
Guy Forsyth
Double Trouble
Ray McCarty
Chili Cold Blood
Toni Price

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Best Country
Asleep at the Wheel

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Reckless Kelly
Kevin Fowler
Dale Watson
The Mother Truckers
The Texas Sapphires
Heybale!
James Hand
Willie Nelson
Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys

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Best Cover Band
Skyrocket (formerly K-Tel Hit Machine)

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

The Eggmen
I Need More Cowbell
Odyssey
Spazmatics
Big Balls
Mysterious Ways
Hell's Belles
SSIK
The Allen Oldies Band

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Best DJ
DJ Mel

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Rapid Ric
Scott Kinnebrew
DJ Toddy B
DJ Manny
DJ Chicken George
DJ Casanova
Scorpio Rising
Car Stereo (Wars)
Raleigh

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Best Experimental
The Octopus Project

photo by Aubrey Edwards

John Pointer
Ghostland Observatory
Invincible Czars
Shuttle Debris
Ohn
Lomita
Death Is Not a Joyride
Chant
White Ghost Shivers

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Best Folk
The Hudsons

photo by John Carrico

Brobdingnagian Bards
Band of Heathens
Eliza Gilkyson
The Tea Merchants
The Lovely Sparrows
Brothers & Sisters
Ruthie Foster
Slaid Cleaves
Bob Livingston

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Best Hip Hop
Overlord

photo by John Carrico

Dirty Wormz
Boombox
Zeale 32
Bavu Blakes
Tee Double
The Arab League
Basswood Lane
Phranchyze
Dubb Sicks

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Best Indie
The Octopus Project

Voxtrot
Ghostland Observatory
Lomita
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Patrice Pike
The Black Angels
Shuttle Debris
Tammany Hall Machine
The Midgetmen

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Best Industrial/Goth
Lucid Dementia

photo by John Carrico

Pail
Scorpio Rising
Tungsten Coil
Subnatural
Dax
Lila's Medicine
Chant
Hipnautica
Death Is Not a Joyride

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Best Instrumental
The Octopus Project

Austin Symphony
McLemore Avenue
The Tea Merchants
Explosions in the Sky
The Golden Arm Trio
3 Balls of Fire
The Monster Big Band
Mundi
Tia Carrera

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Best Jazz
Blaze

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

David Chenu
Ray McCarty
Omar Lopez
Gnappy
Drop Trio
White Ghost Shivers
The Monster Big Band
Ephraim Owens
Jazz Pharaohs

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Best Kid
Sarah Jarosz

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Palm School Choir
Austin Youth Pipes & Drums
The Paul Green School of Rock Music
Max & Henry
Rubber Monster
The Frets
The Steps
Guess?
Ending Silence

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Best Latin Contemporary
Grupo Fantasma

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Del Castillo
The Brew
Ghandaia
Manejo Beto
Cadaques
Los Lonely Boys
Los Gallos
Boca Abajo
Patricia Vonne

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Best Latin Traditional
Del Castillo

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Grupo Fantasma
Ghandaia
Cadaques
Cienfuegos
Charanga Cakewalk
Dave Gonzales
Acadêmicos de Ópera
Ruben Ramos
Atash

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Best Metal
Powderburn

photo by John Carrico

Course of Ruin
Broken Teeth
The Sword
Pail
Lucid Dementia
Dirty Wormz
Bangladesh
Blackholicus
The Jolly Garogers

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Best None of the Above
Brobdingnagian Bards

photo by John Carrico

White Ghost Shivers
Ghostland Observatory
Shuttle Debris
Omar Lopez
John Pointer
The Hudsons
Asylum Street Spankers
Jabarvy
Mingo Fishtrap

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Best Novelty Band
White Ghost Shivers

photo by Aubrey Edwards

The Octopus Project
John Pointer
The Jolly Garogers
Asylum Street Spankers
Small Stars
I Need More Cowbell
The Midgetmen
Austin Lounge Lizards
Miss Jones & the Furballs