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Welcome to the 3rd video in this series entitled "The SRV 'Sky Is Crying' Blueprint". In this 3rd video, I'm going to teach you how to capture some of the magic of SRV's cover in your own playing,

I can remember exactly where I was, what I was doing, and who I was with the first time I heard Stevie Ray Vaughan play. That moment is burned into my memory, and the soundtrack to that memory is "The…

Welcome to the first installment of The SRV "Sky Is Crying" Blueprint. In this series, I'm going to look at Stevie Ray Vaughan's recording of this song from several angles.

In a few days I'll be starting a new lesson series called The SRV "Sky Is Crying" Blueprint.

This is my opinionated review of "Tribute to Ljk", the latest album from Eric Gales. A true blues album from start to finish, it is my favorite album of 2025 so far.

I recently published an update to our TXBA Pro Player tool that has a new feature called "Auto-Looping". This is the third major improvement to video looping since the Pro Player first launched in 2015 along with our TXBA Locals…

Yesterday, I watched an interview with Josh Smith on the Music Is Win channel on YouTube. Towards the end of the interview, Josh talked about the day he decided to stop trying to sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Over the past two months since the release of Little Wing Deep Dive, there's been something bothering me. Something was missing, I just couldn't put my finger on exactly what it was.

In the past 46 days, I've published 46 lessons via my new series "1-Minute Blues". I have to admit, the questions I'm getting in response to these lessons are giving me major deja vu. You see, back in 2007, when…

Most of us have a movie, a song, or even a single solo that provided the spark to ignite our love of blues guitar. We had a dream, and that dream provided the gravity to pull us through whatever practice…

Tom Petty said that waiting is the hardest part, but when it comes to establishing a guitar practice routine, waiting is definitely the easiest part. It's the STARTING that's difficult. Most of us wait and wait and wait just to…

Has anyone ever told you to set goals for your guitar playing? How did that work out? (Just for the record: I'm not against goal-setting, I just think you need to set the right kind of goals.) This year, I…

I don't know if any of you have ever run a marathon (I certainly haven't), but as 2024 comes to a close, it feels like I've completed a year-long marathon, topped off with a 60-day sprint. It has been a…

For the past year I've been producing weekly lessons for our TXBA Locals members, and now those lessons are available in three new courses.

Six months ago I realized I didn't really understand Little Wing, so I set out to change it. Now, Little Wing Deep Dive is here, documenting what I learned during my six-month obsession with the song.

It all started one night as I tried to play more than two choruses of rhythm for the song "Little Wing". Realizing how limited my understanding of that song was led me on a quest to learn as much about…

StevieSnacks began as a hobby in 2007. That turned into my full-time career in 2009. But by 2013, I sensed that a change was needed. A decade ago, on April 25th, 2014, Texas Blues Alley was born.

With over 80 courses and over 300 free lessons to choose from, finding something on TXBA you want to study can be overwhelming. Today, it just got a lot easier.

After 12 years, the Influences course that started it all is getting a significant update. Released in 2011 (during the StevieSnacks era), Albert's Influence: Slow Blues was my first artist Influence course. But in the 12 years since, I've improved…

If you're in the mood to relive the Thanksgiving Ballad tradition, here's a list of every lesson and course I've done on the subject.