Album of the Year: Fastball, All the Pain Money Can Buy (Hollywood)

2. Storyville, Dog Years (Atlantic)
3. Pushmonkey, Pushmonkey (Arista)
4. Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Mercury)
5. Vallejo, Beautiful Life (TVT)
6. Terri Hendrix, Wilory Farm (Tycoon Cowgirl)
7. David Garza, This Euphoria (Atlantic)
8. Ugly Americans, Boom Boom Baby (Capricorn)
9. Jimmie Vaughan, Out there (AristaAustin)
10. Spoon, A Series of Sneaks (Elektra)
11. Don Walser, Down at the Sky-Vue Drive-In (Watermelon/Sire)
12. George DeVore & the Roam, George DeVore & the Roam (Me and My Records)
13. Sixteen Deluxe, Emits Showers of Sparks (Capitol)
14. Tosca, Tia Pamelita (Nois)
15. Two O'clock Courage, Postcards from Home (F.I.T)