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1981-1982Best Texas Recordings

Album of the Year
Joe Ely, Musta Notta Gotta Lotta

The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Butt Rockin'
Big Boys, Industry Standard
Joe Ely, Live Shots
Jerryskids, What Can You Say? How Will They Take It?
Christopher Cross
The Pool, Pool 2
Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns
Delbert McClinton, Plain' From the heart
Eaglebone Whistle
Uranium Savages, Radio Active
Secret Science, Pound Out
The Judys, Washarama
The Austin Christmas Collection
ZZ Top, El Loco
Shake Russell & Dana Cooper, Coming Home
Dan Del Santo & His Professors of Pleasure, That's Life in the Big City
Butch Hancock, Firewater Seeks Its Own Level
Kenneth Threadgill, Silver-Haired Daddy
Bobby Bridger, Heal in the Wisdom

Best EP
The Standing Waves, Vertigo

The Cobras, Caught Live
Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns, Party Safari
The Dicks, Dicks Hate Police
The Lotions
The LeRoi Brothers, Moon Twist
The Inserts, Doctors' Wives
Joe Ely, Live Shots Bonus EP
The Shades, Ward and June Never Understood
The Foams, Paint Me
Aviation
The Next, Women Should Be Wilder
Wommack Brothers, Runaway Heart

Song of the Year
The Pool, Make It Simple

D-Day, Right to Know
The Skunks, What Do You Want
The Offenders, Rockin' the Town
Delbert McClinton, Givin' It Up
John Reed, The Dillo Shall Rise Again
The Explosives, Headhunter
The Stains, John Wayne Was a Nazi
Mike Runnels, Channel 19
D-Day, Too Young to Date
Rotunda, Colonel Sanders Thighs
Delta, Diagrams of Women
The Reactors, It's Not Important
Gator Family, Red Pony
Christopher Cross, Arthur's Theme
F-Systems, People

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