Best Folk
RUNNERS-UP: Uncle Walt’s Band, Grimalkin, Dark Mesa, Take Four, Lucinda, Erwin O. Prather, Jimmie Gilmore, Cheezmo, Mark Luke Daniels, CPR, Dana Cooper & DC3, Darden Smith & the Ramblers, Pat Mears, Shake Russell, Takiy Orqo, Ky Hote, Nanci Griffith, Bill Oliver
Best Female Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Carmen Bradford (Minor Miracle, John Mills Trio); Lou Ann Barton; Marcia Ball; De Lewellen (D-Day); Lisa Gamache (Max & the Makeups); Mellissa Cobb (Stick Figures); Lucinda; Tina Marsh; Lisa Rhodes; Lisa Gilkyson; Suzie Stern; Alice Berry (Trouble Boys); Kimberly Nelson (Chinanine); Chris O’Connell; Janice Hargis (X-Spand-X); Deborah Giles (Private Lives); Diana Cantu; Karla Epler…
Best Record Store
RUNNERS-UP: Sound Warehouse, Inner Sanctum, Treasured Tracs, Recycled Records, Record Exchange, Zebra, Yesterday’s, Discount Records, Music Express
Best Funk
RUNNERS-UP: Big Boys, The Cobras, Dark Motive, Random Culture, Minor Miracle, Dynamic Funk, Ernie Sky & the K-Tels, 1/2 Chicken to Go, Phyrework, Trace of Smoke, Wynnd
Best Horns: Brass
RUNNERS-UP: Mike Mordecai; Donald “Duck” Jennings (W.C. Clark); Keith Winking (K-Tels); Tomas Ramirez; Nathan Gates (Big Boys); Paul Constantine; Brino Brown; Brent Fawns (Big Boys, Doctors’ Mob); Kent Winking (K-Tels); Joe Sublett; Bill Averbach; Smokey Joe Miller
Best Show by a Local Artist
RUNNERS-UP: Joe Ely, the Lift, and Little Charlie at the Austin Opera House, 12/31; Rank and File, Joe “King” Carrasco at the Texas Union, 9/10; Big Boys with the Marching Plague at Soap Creek, 12/11; Fabulous Thunderbirds and the LeRoi Brothers at the Coliseum, 12/31
Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
RUNNERS-UP: The Skunks, 14K, Banzai Kik, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Offenders, Last Rites, Nasty Habits, The Lift, Rabbit, Devils, Heyoka, James Anderson & the Takers, Watchtower, Crystal Image
Best Horns: Reeds
RUNNERS-UP: Smokey Joe Miller (the Cobras), Joe Sublett (the Cobras), Paul Ostermayer (Passenger), John Mills (Minor Miracle), Stuart Orr (Twistyze), Pat Mackrell (K-Tels), Tony Rico, Janice Hargis (X-Spand-X), Joseph Marchione (Chinanine), David Perkoff (Uranium Savages), Tom Peshock, Jeff Barnes
Best Thing to Happen
RUNNERS-UP: MTV; KAZI-FM; Rank and File; KUT going 100,000 watts; It survived; Ritz Theatre; Little Charlie; More clubs; More bands
Best Jazz
RUNNERS-UP: Extreme Heat, Tomas Ramirez Quartet, Hall Brothers, Beto y los Fairlanes, Rich Harney Trio, Minor Miracle, Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, Rhythm Method, Take Four, Bill Tanner Quintet, Cool Breeze, Blue Mist, Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Macumba Love, Alex Coke, Cheezmo, Michael Munday Quartet
Best Keyboards
RUNNERS-UP: Rich Harney; Mike Ramos (the Lift); Kris Cummings (the Crowns); Robert Skiles (Beto y los Fairlanes); Mike Kindred (Joe Ely, Macumba Love, Shakedown); Neil Pederson (Extreme Heat); David White (K-Tels); Bill Ginn (Passenger); Doug Hall, Marcia Ball; Nick Connelly; Bob Nelson (W.C. Clark); Augie Meyers
Best Video
RUNNERS-UP: Kevin Overkill’s Banned program on ACTV; Joe “King” Carrasco, “Person to Person”; Fabulous Thunderbirds, “How Do You Spell Love?”; Peter Gabriel, “Shock the Monkey”; Clash, “Rock the Casbah”; Billy Joel, “Pressure”; Max and the Makeup, “Zerox”; Stray Cats, “Rock This Town”; Tom Petty, “You Got Lucky”
Best Latin
RUNNERS-UP: Little Joe, Johnny y la Familia; Ruben Ramos & Mexican Revolution; Joe “King” Carrasco y los Coronas; Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure; Big Carlos & the Minority Machine; Salaman; Street People; Flaco Jimenez; Nash Hernandez; Esteban Jordan; Latin Image; Alfonso Ramos; La Banda Familia Supernatural
Best Male Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Joe Ely, Kim Wilson (the Fabulous Thunderbirds), Billy Prahblem (the Jitters), Mike Shea (the Devils), Randy “Biscuit” Turner (Big Boys), Josh Jordan (Body Nightclub), Phil Ritcherson (Extreme Heat), Junior Medlow Williams (the Cobras), Bevis Griffin (Banzai Kik), Ty Gavin (the Next), W.C. Clark, Bruce Spelman (Extreme Heat), Tony Kinman (Rank & File), Luis Salinas…
Bon Voyage Award
RUNNERS-UP: Skunks, Dicks, Talmadge D’Amour, MDC/Stains, Christopher Cross, Judy’s, Joe Ely Band, Explosives, Solar Pigs
Band of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Big Boys, Joe Ely Band, Rank & File, The Devils, Extreme Heat, Van Wilks Band, The Standing Waves, Pressure Ernie Sky & the K-Tels, The Jitters, Joe “King” Carrasco & the Crowns, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The LeRoi Brothers, Banzai Kik, Chinanine, The Lift
Best New Wave
RUNNERS-UP: The Jitters, The Lift, Max & the Makeups, D-Day, Joe “King” Carrasco & the Crowns, Rank & File, Chinanine, The Explosives, X-Spand-X, Dark Motive, The Uh-Uhs, Private Lives, Big Boys, Stick Figures, Buffalo Gals, The Skunks
Best Miscellaneous Instrument
RUNNERS-UP: Ponty Bone, accordion (Joe Ely, Squeezetones); Chip Kinman, harmonica (Rank & File); Patrick Keel, everything (the Pool); Paul Orta, harp (Kingpins); John Ely, steel guitar (Kerry Pryor Band); Derek O’Brien; Jim Fritzler, squeaky frog (Stick Figures); Patricia McMillan, sawhorse (Chinanine); Kimberly Nelson, steel drums (Chinanine); Paul Glasse, mandolin; Dickie Erwin, banjo (Erwin O. Prather);…
Most-Desired Touring Band
RUNNERS-UP: Miles Davis, Beatles, David Bowie, Prince, Men at Work, Public Image Ltd., Stevie Wonder, Tower of Power, Crass
Best New Band
RUNNERS-UP: Body Nightclub, Little Charlie & the Eager Beaver Boys, The Devils, Ernie Sky & the K-Tels, Coyote-Safer Band, Twistyze, Dark Motive, Private Lives, Buffalo Gals, Aviation, The Snipes, The Trouble Boys, Doctors’ Mob, Banzai Kik, Current, Meat Joy, The Uh-Uhs
Best None of the Above
RUNNERS-UP: Rank & File, Joe “King” Carrasco & the Crowns, Twistyze, Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, Kamikaze Refrigerators, Dark Motive, The Jitters, Aviation, Buffalo Gals, Beto y los Fairlanes, Stick Figures, Joe Ely Band, Brave Combo, Coyote-Safer Band, The Pool, Supernatural Family Band, Uranium Savages, Tex Thomas, Takiy Orqo, Grimalkin
Best Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Shea/HInes/Pettit (the Devils), Kelly Fero (Imo), Mike Runnels, Kim Wilson (the Fabulous Thunderbirds), Seaman/Henderson/Dage (the Standing Waves), Chip & Tony Kinman (Rank & File), Griffin/Bailey (Banzai Kik), O.T. Loflin (Dark Motive), Joe Ely, Tex Thomas, Big Boys, Stephen Doster, Vince Bryant (Extreme Heat), Mike Barnes (Passenger), Lisa Gilkyson, Dan Del Santo
Worst Thing to Happen
RUNNERS-UP: Cardi’s, The opinions of Ed Ward, KLBJ-FM, Reaganomics, Not enough airplay on commercial radio, The Ritz closed as a punk venue, KUT-FM ended its late-night jazz, MTV, The Armadillo wasn’t resurrected
Musician of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Stevie Ray Vaughan; Randy Turner (Big Boys); Joe “King” Carrasco; O.T. Loflin (Dark Motive); Mike Shea (the Devils); Eric Johnson; Patrick Keel (the Pool); Byron Scott (Twistyze, Trouble Boys); Willie Nelson; Charlie Sexton; Kim Wilson (the Fabulous Thunderbirds); Jimmie Vaughan (the Fabulous Thunderbirds); Billy Prahblem (the Jitters); Kathy Valentine (Go-Gos); Van Wilks; Chip Kinman…
Best Punk/Hardcore
RUNNERS-UP: The Jitters, The Dicks, Dark Motive, The Offenders, The Skunks, The Droogs, The Next, Max & the Makeups, Millions of Dead Cops, Doctors’ Mob, Fudge Tunnels, Burn Center, Whoom Elements, Butthole Surfers, The Pagans, Disciples of Christ
Best Synthesizer
RUNNERS-UP: Neil Pederson (Extreme Heat); Gary Guthrie (talmadge d’amour); Glover Gill (D-Day); Mike Ramos (the Lift); Bill Gin (Passenger); Scott Morgan (Life on Earth, Arthur Brown); Ryan Walker (Chinanine); Patterson Barrett (Austin All-Stars); Mike Kindred (Macumba Love); Jo An Brown (Aviation); Doug Hall; Leonard Smith (Liquid Mice)
Album of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Rank and File, Sundown; Explosives, Restless Natives; Austin All-Stars; Skunks; MDC, Millions of Dead Cops; Joe “King” Carrasco & the Crowns, Synapse Gap; Willie Nelson, Always On My Mind; Lou Ann Barton, Old Enough; Really Red, Teaching You the Fear
Best Reggae
RUNNERS-UP: The Lotions, St. Croix Philharmonic, Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, Twistyze
Best Concert By a Touring Artist
RUNNERS-UP: Gang of Four (Opera House, 9/20); Police (Erwin Center, 3/21); Talking Heads (Fiesta Gardens, 9/7); Joe Jackson (Coliseum, 11/16); Clash (Coliseum, 6/9-10); Stray Cats (Club Foot, 9/5); X (Club Foot, 11/17-18); Linda Ronstadt (Erwin Center, 11/29); Elvis Costello (Coliseum, 7/29)
Best EP
RUNNERS-UP: The Pool; LeRoi Brothers, Moon Twist; Lisa Gilkyson/Mark Hallman; Cheezmo, Down on the Third Coast
Best Rock
RUNNERS-UP: The Lift, The Devils, Joe Ely Band, Austin All-Stars, Van Wilks Band, The Next, The Explosives, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Stephen Doster & Scissors, The Wommack Brothers, Octave Doctors, Black Rose, Christopher Cross, Lisa Rhodes, Private Lives, 14K, The Jitters
Best Concert Poster
RUNNERS-UP: Art Maggots, X at Club Foot, 11/16-17; Micael Priest, Grateful Dead at Manor Downs; Danny Garrett, Stevie Vaughan at Antone’s; Gay Politicians at the Rock & Roll Final Exam, Club Foot; Noxx, D-Day/Chinanine; Rank and File’s Monument Valley poster; Buffalo Gals at the Ritz; Stray Cats and LeRoi Brothers at Club Foot, 9/5, by…
Best Unrecorded Song
RUNNERS-UP: Extreme Heat, “Love Burglar”; Dark Motive, “Social Situation”; Big Boys, “Jump the Fence”; Stick Figures, “Rules of War”; Ernie Sky & the K-Tels, “Can’t Live With You Blues”; Coyote-Safer Band, “Ballad of Coyote-Safer”; Rank and File, “Klansman”; Buffalo Gals, “Dance”; Extreme Heat, “Jump for Joy”; Uh-Uhs, “Invisible World”
Best Rockabilly/50s Rock & Roll
RUNNERS-UP: The Trouble Boys, Joe Ely Band, Little Charlie & the Eager Beaver Boys, Johnny Dee & the Rocket 88s, The Rock-a-Dials, The Teddy Boys, Beverly & the Orbits, The Quiffs, The Bolos, Boystown, The Rattlecats, Rank & File
Best DJ
RUNNERS-UP: Larry Monroe (KUT-FM), Jody Denberg (KLBJ-FM), Tom Quarles (KNOW), Dave Jarrott (K-98), Bobby Orlando (K-98), Brad First (Club Foot), John Aielli (KUT-FM), John Michael Scott (KLBJ-FM), Sky (KLBJ-FM)
Song of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: D-Day, Right To Know; The Take, Tonight/Four Dollar Date; Mike Runnels, Channel 19; Whoom Elements, Of Love/Men in the Politics; Kimmie Rhodes & the Jackalope Brothers, You’ll Take Care of You/No Next Time; Lou Ann Barton, Brand New Lover; Rattlecats, Run My Life/Back To Life; Tom X, Dallas/(I Heard It Through) The Restroom Wall;…
Best Soft Rock/Easy Listening
RUNNERS-UP: Blue Mist, Christopher Cross, Shake Russell, The Lift, Cool Breeze, Dana Cooper, Sunrise
Best Live Music Venue
RUNNERS-UP: Antone’s, Steamboat, Continental Club, Austin Opera House, emmajoe’s, Studio 29, Soap Creek, Paramount Theatre, Piggy’s
Best Avant-Garde
RUNNERS-UP: Talmadge d’Amour, Chinanine, Dark Motive, Tina Marsh, Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Life on Earth, Buffalo Gals, Kamikaze Refrigerators, New Visions Ensemble, Liquid Mice, Trained Ants, Macumba Love, Meat Joy, Tomas Ramirez Quartet, The Uh-Uhs, Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, The Gay Politicians
Best Acoustic Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Butch Hancock, David Prather (Erwin O. Prather), Lucinda, Willie Nelson, Chuck Pennell (Vira Bosa), Chris Bailey, Maury Samuels (Coyote-Safer Band), Mickey White, Sean Warren, Bill Neely, Jerry Stevens (Paradox), Dana Cooper, Mike Landschoot, Elliot Rogers, Gretchen Vanguard (Meat Joy)
Best Music-Related Movie
RUNNERS-UP: Diva, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Brimstone and Treacle, Countryman, Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, Fantasia, Diner, Urgh: A Music War, Cat People
Best Bluegrass
RUNNERS-UP: Dark Mesa, Uncle Walt’s Band, The Ramblers, Supernatural Family Band, The Austin Lounge Lizards, Grassfire, Asleep at the Wheel, Hill Country Express, No Meat but Sausage, Dizzy Dogs, Note Ropers, Pat Mears, Dan Huckabee & the Hucktones
Best Bass Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Chris Gates (Big Boys), Jimmy Pettit (the Devils), Jesse Sublett (the Skunks), Keith Ferguson (the Fabulous Thunderbirds), Kyle Brock (X-Spand-X), Bruce Hughes (Dark Motive), Courtney Major (Pressure), Spencer Starnes, David Fenster (Kamikaze Refrigerators), Mike Robberson, Brad Kizer (Crowns), Brad Taylor, Don Bennett, Bruce Henderson (Standing Waves), David Cardwell (the Lift), Tony Kinman (Rank &…
Best New Club
RUNNERS-UP: Soap Creek, Cardi’s, Ritz Theatre, Studio 29, Oasis, Emmajoe’s, Ed’s, Piggy’s, Buffalo Gals Warehouse
Best Blues
RUNNERS-UP: The Cobras, W.C. Clark Blues Revue, Ernie Sky & the K-Tels, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Angela Strehli Band, Kingpins, Diana Cantu Band, Extreme Heat, Marcia Ball Band, George Underwood & Blues Groove, Coupe de Ville, Omar & the Howlers, Lou Ann Barton, Major Burke, Soulbashers
Best Drums/Percussion
RUNNERS-UP: Rock Savage (the Next, Dan Del Santo); Ian Bailey (the Devils); Eddie Cantu (Extreme Heat); O.T. Loflin (Dark Motive); Slim Evans (Rank & File); Jon Howard (Max & the Makeups); Fran Cristina (the Fabulous Thunderbirds); Jimmie Paite (Lewis & the Legends); Mambo John Treanor; Fred Krc (the Explosives); Robert Marquam; Fred Schultz; Karl Schultz;…
Best Radio Station
RUNNERS-UP: KAZI-FM, KLBJ-FM, KHFI-FM, KNOW, KELG, KTXZ, KMFA-FM, KEY-103, KVET
Best Country
RUNNERS-UP: Willie Nelson, Supernatural Family Band, Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys, Joe Ely Band, Asleep at the Wheel, Al Dreesen & the Super Swing Sausage Revue, Tex Thomas & His Danglin’ Wranglers, Bert Rivera & the Nightriders, Rusty Wier, Jess DeMaine, People’s Choice, Benny Evans, Jerry Jeff Walker
Best Electric Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Eric Johnson; Jon Dee Graham (the Lift); Joe Eddy Hines (the Devils); Mike Barnes (Extreme Heat); Van Wilks; Tim Kerr (Big Boys); Jimmie Vaughan (the Fabulous Thunderbirds); Jesse Taylor; Mitch Watkins (Passenger); Rick Winking (K-Tels); Charlie Sexton (Eager Beaver Boys); Byron Scott (Twistyze, Trouble Boys); Jack Pittala (Nasty Habits); Randy Franklin (Uh-Uhs); Bill Jones…
Best Record Producer
RUNNERS-UP: Nick Lowe (the Fabulous Thunderbirds); Spot (Big Boys, the Dicks); Michael Brovsky (Joe Ely); Peter Butcher (Private Lives); David Kahne (Rank & File); Earle Mankey (the Skunks); Joe Gracey; Craig Hillis; Stu Cook; Richard Mullen; Huey Meaux
