Allly Venable Releases Heart of Fire

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Ally Venable Releases New Record

Ally Venable, an award-winning 21 yearold guitarist from Kilgore, Texas, just released her fourth long player, Heart of Fire via Ruf Records.

Rolling up the amps, this release from the acclaimed singer-songwriter is a record Venable hopes her fans find inspiring.

“My vision was to spread a positive message of love,” Venable says. “The world needs that right now.”

If Heart Of Fire finds Venable giving the globe some much-needed love, then the feeling is entirely mutual. Still, in her early twenties, her two decades have moved as fast as her fingers, her path winding from childhood church choirs to the teenage influence of local heroes like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Miranda Lambert.

So far, Venable has released four albums; No Glass Shoes (2016) and Puppet Show (2018) earned her international fans, Top 10 charting, and ETX Awards, but it was 2019’s #2 Billboardcharting Texas Honey and house-rocking sets on that year’s Blues Caravan tour that sent her to the next level. Now, with Venable’s fanbase snaking further around the block every time she blows into town, Texas roots icon Mike Zito has no doubts, “Ally is the future of blues and the crossover music of American roots-rock.”

Working at the Bessie Blue Studio in Stantonville, Tennessee, with worldrenowned producer Jim Gaines, Heart of Fire finds Venable laser-focused on her songcraft, challenging herself to write unguarded honesty, even if it hurts.

“On this album, I wanted to create a tone of overcoming struggles and persevering,” she explains.

Like any battle, this record gets loud. In a world of electronic pop, this oldsoul gunslinger riffs up a storm on the Led Zeppelin-worthy sting of “Hard Change” and “Do It In Heels,” revs up the slinky hook of “Sad Situation” and drives the title track’s intro with a heavy boot.

“That song is about being in a state of sadness,” she explains, “and someone comes along and brings you out of it,