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1990-1991Best Performing Bands

Best Avant-Garde
Shoulders

Glass Eye
Stick People
Poi Dog Pondering
Liquid Mice
Coffee Sergeants
Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom
Crust
State of Mind
Bad Livers

Best Blues
W.C. Clark

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
E.R. Shorts
Marcia Ball Band
Omar & the Howlers
Solid Senders
Lou Ann Barton
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Antones
Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli
Ian Moore & Moment's Notice

Best Country
Asleep at the Wheel

Chaparral
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Kelly Willis
Alvin Crow
Teddy & the Tall Tops
Two Hoots & a Holler
Darden Smith & His Big Guns
Bad Livers
Christine Albert

Best Cover Band
The Bizness

Big Time
Duck Soup
The Rave
Ro-tel & the Hot Tomatoes
Hot Cakes
Daddios
When Is Now
The Racket

Best Folk
Darden Smith

Tish Hinojosa
Jimmy LaFave
Butch Hancock
Two Nice Girls
David Halley
Iain Matthews
Bad Livers
Steve Fromholz
Therapy Sisters

Best Funk
Bad Mutha Goose

The Bizness
Extreme Heat
Joe Rockhead
Bouffant Jellyfish
Retarded Elf
Stick People

Best Jazz
Native Sun

The Brew
Mitch Watkins
Tony Campise
Kyle Turner Band
Beto y los Fairlanes
Tomas Ramirez
Worthy Constituents
Countenance

Best Latin
Susanna Sharpe & Samba Police

Texas Tornados
Beto y los Fairlanes
A Banda De La
Little Joe y la Familia
Ruben Ramos & the Texas Revolution
Toqui Amaru
One Touch
Alejandro Escovedo Orchestra
Native Sun

Best Metal/Hardcore
Pariah

Agony Column
Near Dark
Johnny Law
Dangerous Toys
Ed Hall
Young Thunder
Dancyr
Culture Shock
Sex Pack

Best None of the Above
Austin Lounge Lizards

Bad Livers
Alejandro Escovedo Orchestra
Shoulders
Tex Thomas & His Danglin' Wranglers
Darden Smith & Big Guns
Poi Dog Pondering
Texas Tornados
Vanguards
One Touch

Best Pop
Water the Dog

Javelin Boot
David Halley Band
Unlisted Numbers
Big Car
Timbuk3
Poi Dog Pondering
Big Time
Grains of Faith
Darden Smith & Big Guns

Best Rap
Retarded Elf

Cooly Girls
Capt. P
Bad Mutha Goose
Joe Rockhead

Best Reggae
Michael E. Johnson and the Killer Bees

Spy vs. Spy
I-Tex
House in Orbit
Root One
The Presidents
One Nation
Steel Power
Wajumbe

Best Rock
The Joe Ely Band

Eric Johnson Band
Pariah
Johnny Law Individuals
Water the Dog
Big Car
Two Hoots & a Holler
David Halley Band
Hand of Glory

Best Roots Rock
Two Hoots & a Holler

High Noon
LeRoi Brothers
Vanguards
Tailgators
Highwaymen
Joe Ely Band
Booze Weasels
Bill Carter & the Blame
Omar & the Howlers

Best Soul
W.C. Clark

E.R. Shorts
The Bizness
Chris Thomas Band
Junior Medlow
Toby Anderson
Extreme Heat
Bad Mutha Goose
R.C. Banks & Texas Sheiks

Best of the Year
Best Texas Recordings
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