Best Concert By a Touring Artist
RUNNERS-UP: Sting (Erwin Center, 10/29); Los Lobos (Steamboat, 2/4-5); James Brown (Opera House, 11/30); Red Hot Chili Peppers (Liberty Lunch, 12/12); Neville Brothers (Liberty Lunch, 10/18); Ebeneezer Obey (Liberty Lunch, 9/27); Squeeze/Hooters (Coliseum, 9/19); REM (Opera House, 8/1); 10,000 Maniacs (Liberty Lunch, 10/25); Dire Straits (Coliseum, 8/15); Jonathan Richman (Liberty Lunch, 9/1); Julian Lennon (Palmer…
Band of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Omar & the Howlers, True Believers, Zeitgeist, Kirk Whalum Group, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, 14K, Rhythm Rats, Glass Eye, Dan Del Santo and His Professors of Pleasure, Bobby Mack & Night Train, Extreme Heat, Skank, Doctors’ Mob, Fabulous Thunderbirds
Best Reggae
RUNNERS-UP: Pressure, Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, I-Tex & the Frontier Dub Boys, Lotions, Brown DeCoux, Steel Power
Best Concert Poster
RUNNERS-UP: Nels Jacobson: Squeeze, Danny Garrett: Antone’s 10th Anniversary, Guy Juke: ’84/’85 Music Awards, Rollo Banks: Dino Lee at the Back Room, Steve Stokes: Chlorine, Guy Juke: Bubble Puppy, Nels Jacobson: Billy Bragg
Best New Band
RUNNERS-UP: Cargo Cult, Flex, Chlorine, Timbuk3, Alamo Choir, Strappados, Evan Johns & the H-Bombs, Hot Pink, Black Spring, 51/50, Will Sexton & the Kill, Straight Up, Richard Patureau and the Bayou Bandits, Torpedoes
Best Rock
RUNNERS-UP: Van Wilks Band, True Believers, Doctors’ Mob, Jam Scam, Eric Johnson, Flex, Commandos, Omar & the Howlers, Zeitgeist, Rhythm Rats, Watchtower, Joe Ely Band, Hot Pink, 51/50
Best DJ
RUNNERS-UP: Larry Monroe (KUT-FM), Paul Ray (KUT-FM), Phillippe LaVere (KUT-FM), Rocket Bob Moore and Sammy Allred (KTXZ), Clark Ryan (KLBJ), Sky (KLBJ), Brad First (Club Iguana), Dan Del Santo (KUT-FM), Ed Mayberry (KLBJ), J.R. (K-98), John Aielli (KUT-FM), no such thing, Jimmy Remington (Boathouse), Richard Luckett (Status Quo Club)
Musician of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Eric Johnson, Dino Lee, Kirk Whalum, Charlie Sexton, Kent “Omar” Dykes, Daniel Johnston, Bobby Mack, Lonnie Mack, Denny Freeman, Dan Del Santo, Bill Averbach, Mitch Watkins, Marcia Ball, Joe Ely
Best Roots Rock
RUNNERS-UP: Tailgators, LeRoi Brothers, Commandos, Rhythm Rats, Omar & the Howlers, Pressure, Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones, Wild Seeds, Bobby Mack & Night Train, Evan Johns & the H-Bombs, Doctors’ Mob, Lost Gonzo Band, Vanguards, Joe Ely
Best Live Music Venue
RUNNERS-UP: Continental Club, Steamboat, Antone’s, Austin Opera House, South Bank Bistro, Beach Cabaret, Back Room, Cactus Cafe, Symphony Square
Album of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Big Guitars From Texas, Trash, Twang, and Thunder; Zeitgeist, Translate Slowly; Dino Lee, King of White Trash; Skank, I Never Said That; Bands on the Block compilation with Doctors’ Mob, Wild Seeds, Go Dog Go, True Believers, Zeitgeist, Pez, etc.; Killer Bees, Scratch the Surface; Bobby Mack and Night Train; Butch Hancock and Marce…
Best Soul
RUNNERS-UP: Trik-Trax, W.C. Clark Blues Revue, Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm, Extreme Heat, Do Dat, Skank, Cul de Sac, Elouise Burrell & Trickle Down, Toby Anderson Band, Blue Mist, Wynnd
Best Music Store
RUNNERS-UP: Strait Music Company, Tommy’s Drum Shop, Danny’s Guitar Shop, Lightning Music and Sound, Guitar Resurrection, Alpha Music Center, South Austin Music, Musical Exchange, J.R. Reed
Best EP
RUNNERS-UP: Extreme Heat; Randy Franklin; Dan Del Santo, Make It Right; Poison 13, First You Dream, Then You Die; Roky Erickson, Clear Night For Love; Butthole Surfers, Cream Corn; Rudi Dadd, Rudi’s Dead; Texas Instruments, More Texas Instruments; Joe “King” Carrasco, Viva San Antone; LeRoi Brothers, Fight Fire With Fire; Scratch Acid
Best Acoustic Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Dan Del Santo, Daniel Johnston, Willie Nelson, Butch Hancock, Mickey White, Will Indian, David Halley, Joe Ely, Scott Wilson
Best Music Writer
RUNNERS-UP: Michael Corcoran, Ed Ward, no such thing, Michael Point, Jody Denberg, Michael T. Lyttle, Richard Dorsett, Jay Trachtenberg, L.E. McCullough, Margaret Moser, Jeff Whittington, Chris Walters, Louis Black, Brent Grulke
Best Single
RUNNERS-UP: Mike Alvarez, “The Night I Watched You Sleep”; Ponty Bone, “Texas Jumbo Shrimp”/Frio City Road Polka”; Omar & the Howlers, “Border Girl”; Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Change It”/”Little Sister”; Junior Brown, “Gotta Get Up Every Morning”/”Too Many Nights in a Roadhouse”; Elouise Burrell, “Cream Always Rises”/”Singer in a R&B Band”; Charlie Sexton, “Beat’s So Lonely”;…
Best Bass Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Sarah Brown (The Antones); Bruce Hughes (Skank, Arthur Brown); Ted Sweeney (Extreme Heat); John Keller (White Trash Revue); John Blondell; Jesse Sublett; Roscoe Beck; Lonnie Hutchinson; Chris Maresh (Trik-Trax); Craig Neitfeld (Van Wilks); Brian Beattie (Glass Eye); Clark Ellison (Diana Cantu Band); Bruce Jones; Loose Reed; Danny Swinney; Courtney Major (Pressure); Cola Rodriguez; Dennis…
Best Radio Station
RUNNERS-UP: KLBJ-FM, KAZI-FM, KTXZ, K-98 (KHFI-FM), no such thing, KNOW, KMFA, KASE, KOKE
Song of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Charlie Sexton, “Beat’s So Lonely”; SRV and Double Trouble, “Change It”; Bobby Mack and Night Train, “Piece Of My Heart”; Roky Erickson, “Don’t Slander Me”; Dino Lee, “Everybody Get Some”; Zeitgeist, “Things Don’t Change”; SRV and Double Trouble, “Say What”; Dan Del Santo, “Love Will Make It Right”; Richard Patureau & the Bayou Bandits,…
Best Drums/Percussion
RUNNERS-UP: Rock Savage, Eddie Cantu, Mike Navarro & Hector Munoz, Glenn Benavides, Tommy Taylor, Rey Washam, Jon Howard, Chris Skiles, Rusty Trapps, Darby Smotherman, Garrett Williams, Scott Lanningham, Paul Pearcy, John Treanor, Mike Ford, David Fore, David Duffy, Ian Bailey, Bobby Jones
Best Record Producer
RUNNERS-UP: Craig Hillis (Christmas Collection, Steve Fromholz); Richard Mullen (Stevie Ray Vaughan); John Viehweg (Zeitgeist); Patrick Keel (The Pool, Randy Franklin); Spot (Big Boys, Offenders, Tailgators); Steve Mendell (Bobby Mack, Gwen Newsome); Chris Gates (Poison 13, Doctors’ Mob); Joe Gracey (Kimmie Rhodes, Jon Emery, Butch Hancock); Dino Lee; Kerry Crafton (Roky Erickson); Dan Del Santo;…
Best Avant-Garde
RUNNERS-UP: Timbuk3, The Pool, Daniel Johnston, Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue, B-Complex, Trained Ants, Scratch Acid, Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, Brave Combo, Happy Dagger, Lifeseyes, Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Cargo Cult, Technicolor Yawns
Best Electric Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Stevie Ray Vaughan; Denny Freeman (Antones); Jon Dee Graham (True Believers); Will Indian (Rhythm Rust); Jimmie Vaughan (Fabulous Thunderbirds); Michael English (Wynnd, Fuzz Brothers, Dino Lee); Evan Johns (H-Bombs, Big Guitars); Mitch Watkins; Dave Grissom (Lou Ann Barton); Dan Del Santo; Mark Ross (Flex); Brad Schultz (Trik-Trax); John Inmon (Lost Gonzo Band); Van Wilks;…
Best Record Store
RUNNERS-UP: Record Exchange, Sound Warehouse, Inner Sanctum, Yesterdays, Hastings, Half-Price, Harmony House
Best Blues
RUNNERS-UP: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Fabulous Thunderbirds, W.C. Clark Blues Revue, Lou Ann Barton Band, Angela Strehli Band, Kathy & the Kilowatts, The Antones, Rhythm Rats, Bobby Mack and Night Train
Best Female Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Lou Ann Barton, Marcia Ball, Lisa Gamache, Elouise Burrell, Kim Longacre, Kellye Gray, Karen Kraft, Kathy Murray, Diana Cantu, Jam & Jelly Girls, Eliza Gilkyson, Mellissa Cobb, Paula Helene, Suzie Elkins, Nanci Griffith, Sheryl Jones, Kelly Rene, Penny Hanna, Sabrina Cummings
Best Thing to Happen
RUNNERS-UP: Liberty Lunch survived, City powers acknowledged importance of music, South Bank Bistro, Black Cat Lounge, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Nothing, Antone’s 10th Anniversary, Michael Corcoran, Austin Chronicle, Back Room was expanded, Charlie Sexton, Woodshock, Big Guitars Grammy nomination, Texas Music Commission
Best Country
RUNNERS-UP: Supernatural Family Band, Willie Nelson, Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys, Asleep at the Wheel, Lounge Lizards, Butch Hancock, Rusty Wier, Tex Thomas & the Danglin’ Wranglers, Richard Patureau & the Bayou Bandits, Toshio Hirano, Geezinslaw Brothers, Al Dressen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lost Gonzo Band
Best Horns
RUNNERS-UP: Tomas Ramirez, Derrick Edmondson, Paul Constantine, The Mighty Big Horns, Nathan Gates, Mark “Kaz” Kazanoff, Joe Sublett, Kirk Whalum, Paul Ostermayer, Bill Averbach, Johnny Reno, Don Silverman, Richard Hardy
Best Video
RUNNERS-UP: Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Change It”; 14K, “Ring Christmas Bells”; Omar & the Howlers, “Border Girl”; ZZ Top, “Sleeping Bag”; Mike Alvarez, “The Night I Watched You Sleep”; Rhythm Rats, “Speeding Motorcycle”; Dino Lee, “Ultimately Bored”; Poison 13, “My Biggest Mistake”; True Believers, “Train Round the Bend”
Best Folk
RUNNERS-UP: Butch Hancock & Marce Lacouture, Nanci Griffith, Timbuk3, Lounge Lizards, Steve Fromholz, Darden Smith, Townes Van Zandt, Sue Young, Shake Russell, Bill Oliver, Bouree Texane, Lisa Gilkyson, Walter Hyatt, Two Nice Girls
Best Keyboards
RUNNERS-UP: Mel Brown, Mike Ramos, Riley Osbourne (Shake Russell), Glover Gill, Marcia Ball, Robert Skiles (Beto y los Fairlanes), Rodney Lee, Stella Weir (Glass Eye), Patrick Keel (The Pool), Jeff Clark, Rich Harney, Gayle Blade, Reese Wynans (Double Trouble), Greg Lee
What Would You Most Like to See Happen to Austin Music in 1986?
RUNNERS-UP: More support, A medium-sized central venue, More money, More radio airplay of Austin bands, More national exposure, More diversity, More reggae and Third World music, More touring acts, More and better local press, Earlier show times, Less New Sincerity, Auditorium Shores concerts continue, City support for live music, Major local record company, Local bands…
Best Jazz
RUNNERS-UP: Tomas Ramirez/Jazzmanian Devil, No Compromise, Trained Ants, Kellye Gray Band, Trik-Trax, Kaz Jazz Quartet, The Brew, Elouise Burrell & Trickle Down, Eric Johnson, Mitch Watkins Group, Extreme Heat, Beto y los Fairlanes, Michael Mordecai, Tony Campise
Worst Thing to Happen
RUNNERS-UP: Soap Creek closed; Pat Blashill; They took Clifford Antone away; KTXZ’s Austin on the Air went off the air; Charlie Sexton’s album; Music critics; Club Iguana; Club closing; Discos, fem bars, and copy band, especially on Sixth Street; Apathy; This poll
Best Latin
RUNNERS-UP: Beto y los Fairlanes, Joe “King” Carrasco y las Coronas, Balamil, Latin Lovers, Little Joe y la Familia, Latin Tempo Combo, Salaman
Best Male Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Kent “Omar” Dykes, Bruce Spellman, Kim Wilson, Joe Ely, Jesse Sublett, Steve Collier, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stanley Hall, Scott Hoyt, Ted Martin, Jim Butler, Rolan Ramos, Robert Kelly, Ernie Sky, Richard Patureau, Charlie Sexton
Best New Music
RUNNERS-UP: Glass Eye, Timbuk3, Windows, Flex, Skank, Wild Seeds, Randy Franklin, Cargo Cult, Black Spring, B-Complex, 51/50, Mitch Watkins Group, Year Zero
Best Miscellaneous Instrument
RUNNERS-UP: Kim Wilson (blues harp, Fabulous Thunderbirds); James Fenner (percussion, Sweaters, Dan Del Santo); Gary Primich (harmonica); Paul “Tex” Sweeney (mandolin, Grassmatics); Paul Glasse (mandolin); Eric Hokkanen (fiddle); Spider Johnson (saw, Butch Hancock); Brian Sokoff (bongos, the Urge); T-Bone Herndon (harmonica, Carolina); Alvin Crow (fiddle, Pleasant Valley Boys); Michael Johnson; John Hagen; Dean Oldencott; Chris…
Best None of the Above
RUNNERS-UP: Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue, Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones, Lounge Lizards, Brave Combo, Tex Thomas & the Danglin’ Wranglers, Elouise Burrell & Trickle Down, Technicolor Yawns, Rudi Dadd, Cul de Sac, Uranium Savages, Diana Cantu Band, Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm,…
Best Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Butch Hancock, Doyle Bramhall, Dino Lee, Jesse Sublett, Stephen Doster, Tex Thomas, John Croslin, Julia Austin, David Halley, Stanley Hall, Richard Patureau, Dennis Ford/Jim Butler, Eddie Pantell/Lisa Gamcahe, Steve Collier, Willie Nelson, Sylvester Jones, Will Indian, Ronnie Dittmar
Best Punk
RUNNERS-UP: Scratch Acid, Hickoids, Strappados, Cargo Cult, Offenders, Butthole Surfers, Circle Kaos, Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm, Jaws of Life
