Song of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Joe Ely, “Lord of the Highway”; Joe Ely, “My Baby Thinks She’s French”; Raging Saint, “Raging Saint”; Big Bam Boo, “This Might Be the Big One”; Timbuk 3, “All I Want For Christmas (Is World Peace)”; The Reivers, “In Your Eyes”; The Reivers, “Secretariat”; Ernie “Sky” Gammage, “Absolutely Positively Austin”; Rhythm Rats, “I Wanna…
Best Soul
RUNNERS-UP: Junior Medlow & the Bad Boys, Elouise Burrell, Trik-Trax, Toby Anderson Band, Bizness, Blue Mist, Do Dat, Extreme Heat, Angela Strehli Band
Best Music Store
RUNNERS-UP: Heart of Texas Music, Danny’s Guitar Shop, Lightning Music and Sound, Music Exchange, Tommy’s Drum Shop, Austin City Music, South Austin Music
Best Avant-Garde
RUNNERS-UP: Miracle Room, Butthole Surfers, Two Nice Girls, Guardez Lou, Lifeseyes, Timbuk 3, Shoulders, Lucky Tailors, Ed Hall
Best Acoustic Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Joe Ely, Darden Smith, Stephen Doster, Mickey White, David Halley, Willie Nelson, Rich Brotherton, Butch Hancock, Olin Murrell
Best Music Writer
RUNNERS-UP: John T. Davis, me, no such thing, Jody Denberg, Ed Ward, Luke Torn, L.E. McCollough, Michael Point, Casey Monahan
Best Blues
RUNNERS-UP: 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 Bass Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Sarah Brown, Keith Ferguson, Roland Denney, Brad Hudson, Craig Pettigrew, Preston Hubbard, Tim Swingle, Steve Zirkel, Tommy Shannon, Speedy Sparks, Spencer Starnes
Best Radio DJ
RUNNERS-UP: Paul Ray, Kevin Connor, Larry Monroe, no such thing, Sky, Sammy Allred, John Aielli, Jay Trachtenberg, David Obermann, C.K. Carman, Peggy Simmons
Best Country
RUNNERS-UP: 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 Drums/Percussion
RUNNERS-UP: George Rains, Frosty, Glen Benavides, Fran Christina, Davis McClarty, Tommy Taylor, Rey Washam, Glen Parma, Chris Layton
Best Radio Station
RUNNERS-UP: 102.3 KPEZ, 91.7 KLBJ FM, no such thing, 88.7 KAZI FM, 98.5 The Fox FM, 93.3 B-93 FM, 1300 KVET FM, 98.3 KHFI FM
Best Cover Band
RUNNERS-UP: Realtyme, 14K, Duck Soup, Doctors’ Mob, Trik-Trax, Ro-Tel & the Hot Tomatoes, Torpedoes, Steinbergs
Best Electric Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: David Grissom, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chris Duarte, Mitch Watkins, Denny Freeman, Jimmie Vaughan, Bill Arthur Jones, Will Sexton, Mel Brown, Tony Airoldi, Robbie Araiza
Best Record Producer
RUNNERS-UP: Spot, Brian Beattie, Keith Ayres, Mark Hallman, Richard Mullen, Jim Yanaway, Don Dixon, Andy Bugg, Renee Morrison
Best Folk
RUNNERS-UP: Two Nice Girls, Nanci Griffith, Butch Hancock, Make Believers, Lyle Lovett, Lounge Lizards, Tim Henderson, Bobby Bridger, Julie Howard, Jimmy LaFave, Allen Damron
Best Female Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Angela Strehli, Marcia Ball, Kris McKay, Onyxx, Diana Matthews, Kim Longacre, Julie Burrell, Kathy Murray, Kathy McCarty, Elouise Burrell, Lisa Gamache
Best Record Store
RUNNERS-UP: Sound Warehouse, Sound Exchange, Antone’s Records, Yesterdays, Sundance, Harmony House, Inner Sanctum, Hastings, Half Price
Best Funk
RUNNERS-UP: Extreme Heat, Do Dat, Trik-Trax, Bizness, Slackface, Moving Parts, Elouise Burrell, Def MFs, Pressure
Best Horns
RUNNERS-UP: Tomas Ramirez, Mark “Kaz” Kazanoff, Smokey Joe Miller, Bill Averbach, Tom Robinson, Jon Blondell, John Mills, Mighty Big Horns, Tony Campise, Alex Coke, Brian Niedercrom
Best Thing to Happen
RUNNERS-UP: National recognition, Big Mamou, Local music on radio, Texas-USSR Musicians’ Exchange, Liberty Lunch stayed open, Student Radio Task Force, Continental Club reopened, Major label signings, It survived, Antone’s/Antone’s West, Kevy J’s, More creativity, Dong Huong
Best Jazz
RUNNERS-UP: Mitch Watkins Group, Kirk Whalum & Group Session, Beto y los Fairlanes, No Compromise, Tony Campise, Trained Ants, Blue Mist, Joe Morales, Eric Johnson
Best Keyboards
RUNNERS-UP: Mel Brown, Glover Gill, Mike Kindred, Neil Pederson, William Herrington, Stanton Hoffman, Danny Levin, Chip Dolan, Nick Connolly, Reese Wynans, Grey Ghost
Best Video
RUNNERS-UP: LeRoi Brothers, “Chain of Love”; Timbuk 3, “All I Want for Christmas”
Best Latin
RUNNERS-UP: Ruben Ramos, Beto y los Fairlanes, Little Joe y la Familia, Moving Force, Toqui Amaru, Dan del Santo, Alma \ Johnny Delgollado, Mariachi Estrella
Best Male Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Kim Wilson, Kent “Omar” Dykes, Kim Hayes, Ted Roddy, Lyle Lovett, Joe Doerr, Don Turnley, Junior Medlow, Ray Benson, John Croslin, Eric Johnson
What Would You Most Like to See Happen to Austin Music in 1988?
RUNNERS-UP: More money, Armadillo World HQ or something like it, More national recognition, Alternative radio, More local music on radio, KTSB student radio, More touring acts, More country, Earlier showtimes, Major label signings, More originality, More city support, Bigger audiences, More jazz
Band of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Joe Ely Band, Omar and the Howlers, Timbuk 3, Will and the Kill, Glass Eye, Wagoneers, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Killer Bees, WayOuts, Big Bam Boo, Asleep at the Wheel, Butthole Surfers, Texas Instruments
Best Metal/Hardcore
RUNNERS-UP: Doctors’ Mob, Raging Saint, Agony Column, Dangerous Toys, Watchtower, Will and the Kill, Band From Hell, Onyxx, Van Wilks
Best Miscellaneous Instrument
RUNNERS-UP: Paul Glasse (mandolin); Erik Hokkanen (Fiddle, Offbeats); John Hagen (cello); Kim Wilson (blues harp, Fabulous Thunderbirds); James Fenner (percussion, Dan Del Santo); Gary Primich (blues harp, Mannish Boys); Johnny Gimble (fiddle); John Ely (pedal steel); Brenda Thompson (triangle)
Worst Thing to Happen
RUNNERS-UP: Clubs closing in general, The economy, Higher drinking age, John T. Davis fired from Statesman, Hot Number, Cave Club closed, Corky, Cover bands, Audience apathy, City regulations hassling clubs, Flying Circus closed, Texadelphia closed, Music critics, Cutbacks at UT Arts Complex
Best New Band
RUNNERS-UP: WayOuts, Raging Saint, Tycoons, Ballad Shambles, Gina Fobia & the Symptoms, Grains of Faith, Erik Hokkanen & the Offbeats, Junior Medlow & the Bad Boys, Shoulders, Two Hoots and a Holler, Bizness
Best New Music
RUNNERS-UP: Tanz Waffen, Conquest, WayOuts, Wild Seeds, Shoulders, Glass Eye, Enigma, Timbuk 3, Two Nice Girls
Best Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Butch Hancock, Pat MacDonald, Joe Ely, Daniel Johnston, David Halley, Lyle Lovett, John Porter, Tony Airoldi, Jimmy LaFave, John Croslin, Monte Warden, Robert Keen, Darden Smith, Randy Banks
Musician of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kent “Omar” Dykes, Lyle Lovett, Will Sexton, Ray Benson, Erik Hokkanen, Tony Airoldi, John Porter, Van Wilks, John Croslin, David Grissom, Julie Burrell, Brian Beattie
Best None of the Above
RUNNERS-UP: 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 Club DJ/Dance Club
RUNNERS-UP: AustiNights, West End, Broken Spoke, Club Islas, Philip Nitch (Back Room), Hall’s, Phil Owen (Cave Club), New West
Album of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Reivers, Saturday; Omar and the Howlers, Hard Times in the Land of Plenty; Lyle Lovett, Lyle Lovett; Asleep at the Wheel, Ten ; Killer Bees, Groovin’; Fabulous Thunderbirds, Hot Number; Butthole Surfers, Locust Abortion Technician; Doctors’ Mob, Sophomore Slump
Best Pop
RUNNERS-UP: The Reivers, Gina Fobia and the Symptoms, Torpedoes, Wild Seeds, Extreme Heat, Zulu Time, Big Bam Boo, Year Zero, Hotcakes
Best Concert By a Touring Artist
RUNNERS-UP: U2, Elvis Costello, Neville Brothers, John Hiatt, Tina Turner, Roger Waters, King Sunny Ade, Guadalcanal Diary, Boston, Husker Du, Los Lobos, Replacements, George Strait, Robert Cray, K.D. Lang, Level 42, Fleetwood Mac, Chris Isaak, Heart
Best EP
RUNNERS-UP: Scratch Acid, Berserker; Hickoids, Hard Corn; Three On a Hill, Biting on Tinfoil
Best Reggae
RUNNERS-UP: I-Tex, Pressure, Steel Power, Dan Del Santo, Odd Wattage
Best Concert Poster
RUNNERS-UP: Nels Jacobson: Texas-USSR Musicians Exchange, Frank Kozik: Butthole Surfers at the Cave Club, Frank Kozik: Poison 13 at the Texas Tavern, Frank Kozik: Scratch Acid at the Cave Club
Best Single
RUNNERS-UP: The Reivers, “In Your Eyes”; Joe Ely, “Lord of the Highway”; Timbuk 3, “All I Want for Christmas (Is World Peace)”; Big Bam Boo, “This Might Be the Big One”; Rhythm Rats, “I Wanna Spend the Night With Vanna White”; Joe Ely, “My Baby Thinks She’s French”; Ron Rogers and the White Slave Boys,…
Best Rock
RUNNERS-UP: 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 Live Music Venue
RUNNERS-UP: Steamboat, Antone’s, Back Room, Austin Opera House, Hole in the Wall, Big Mamou, Black Cat Lounge, Erwin Center, Paramount Theatre, Continental Club, Cave Club, Auditorium Shores, Cactus Club, Kevy J’s
Best Tape
RUNNERS-UP: Ballad Shambles, Ballad Shambles; Anneke, Romp; Sado, Bouquet of Metal; Weeds, The Thing on the Doorstep; Shoulders, Local Zoo; Tanz Waffen, Tanz Waffen 2; Lucky Tailors, Seamless Alterations; Fred Argir, Wall of Windows; Javelin Boot, The Mauve Album
Best Roots Rock
RUNNERS-UP: Tycoons, Tail Gators, Two Hoots & a Holler, Joe Ely Band, Omar & the Howlers, Resistors, LeRoi Brothers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Bill Carter & the Blame
Best Local Music TV Show
RUNNERS-UP: VidEot’s Choice, Citizens Live, MTV, 120 Minutes, Night Flight, Green Fungus, Texas Music Show, Hank Sinatra Presents
