“I wanted to play like Stevie and see if I could break my guitar in half like he tried to do”: Ally Venable is spreading the Texas blues gospel via a deep-seated love of Stevie Ray Vaughan and her “Wounded Warrior” Les Paul

Ally Venable sits on a couch with her Magenta colored Les Paul.

Last year, in the middle of a solo on stage, Ally Venable had a revelation.

“I was playing so many shows that it started to become kind of a monotonous blur,” she says. “I noticed I was playing to my ego and just looking for applause. It was like I knew when people were gonna clap when I did certain things.