Ally Venable - Money & Power

 

Ally Venable — Money & Power

2025 release from the Texas-based guitarist and vocalist

Critically acclaimed Texas-based guitarist and vocalist Ally Venable presents her 2025 studio album Money & Power via Ruf Records.

Rules are there to be broken. Expectations are there to be defied, and glass ceilings are there to be shattered. Having spent the past decade carving out her own unique space in the male-dominated world of blues-rock, Venable's combative sixth album, Money & Power, demands more of both — for herself, for women around the world, and for anyone else who thought they weren't worthy of a seat at the table.

Money & Power is such a strong statement, especially for women," says the award-winning Texas gunslinger of her Nashville-recorded new release, on which Ally's crack-squad band is joined by A-list guests Shemekia Copeland and Christone ‘Kingfish' Ingram.

"All the songs on this album showcase the theme of what it truly means to be a force to be reckoned with. I want this record to wake people up," continues Ally.

Money and power make the world go round. But in the right hands, music can be every bit as potent. Right now, on the heels of 2023's acclaimed Real Gone — an album that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Charts and was still in contention a year later — Ally is rated amongst the best young singer-songwriters in American roots, saluted by Total Guitar magazine in its poll of Top 100 Blues Guitarists.

"With her heels, sequins and Les Paul growling on a leash, she's one of Ruf's most head-turning young artists," wrote Classic Rock, "and while the instrumental prowess can be taken as read, Real Gone marks a growing maturity in the Texan's songcraft."

Money & Power is a modern roots record that plays by its own rules and marches to the beat of its own drum. The same could be said for Ally herself. "I'm thrilled to release this album," she says. "For me, it's a sonic embodiment of a woman's unstoppable ambition, and really showcases my musicality on all fronts. I'm looking forward to seeing where this one will take me."

Side A

1. Brown Liquor

2. Maybe Someday

3. Money & Power

4. Do You Cry

5. Heal Me

6. Stopper Back Papa

Side B

1. Legends

2. Keep Me in Mind}Unbreakable

3. Stepping Stone

4. Feel That Sting

5. Blackcat

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