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Take a walk down Texas Blues Alley and look around. What do you see? Videos - lots and lots of videos. Most of them are free. Now consider this. Since 2009, this has been my job. I don't go into…

If you're like most TXBA fans, you primarily surf what's "new", looking for the latest free lesson, etc... Nothing wrong with that, I do it too. But you miss a LOT of stuff if you don't go exploring. Because I…

Update 1/14/16

Nosepedal is for sale and is not taking any orders.

If you're a newcomer to TXBA, there's some history here that will help explain why many of my older lessons use E-Flat tuning. Before I built Texas Blues Alley, I ran a site called StevieSnacks. I began StevieSnacks as a…

Among the many new things at TXBA this year, most of you have noticed a new form of content called Mini-Courses. These smaller courses will play a large role at TXBA in the future so I wanted to take a…

You can't throw a stick without hitting a new boutique pedal company these days. Texas Blues Alley is very much a boutique site, but with surprising reach considering the focus. I've interacted with a few boutique pedal companies who mostly…

I returned from Florida on April 16th, exhausted from an intense 2-day shoot for TrueFire. My calendar told me that Texas Blues Alley was supposed to launch in two days, but my body was telling me ìuh,.... no.î I've released…

After a year of planning, and five months of intense coding, I am very proud to welcome you to Texas Blues Alley.

By now you’ve probably seen the video announcing the StevieSnacks transition to Texas Blues Alley that’s going to happen in about two weeks, closer to the middle of April. I wanted to write a few notes about the transition to…

Of course I love every lesson on this site, but even I recognize that certain lessons are wildly more popular than others. Out of my entire catalog of over 150 free lessons, here are the 20 lessons that the most…

This was my third trip to the big show, and it did not disappoint. I saw plenty of cool stuff and met with people I never see outside of these shows. First the gear, then the people. This is just…

As 2013 comes to a close, I wanted to share something with all of you that I think about often. It matters to me that you know exactly where my head is. The success of this site outgrew my comfort…

I am extremely proud to announce the release of my final lessons for 2013, and the last set of lessons in the SRV Style Solo Matrix - Slight Return. As the name suggests, these lessons were create to teach you…

It gives me great pleasure to introduce a new set of lessons into the SRV Style Solo Matrix entitled Fly On. You all know that SRV's cover of Little Wing is an anthem that has been studied by guitar players…

I don't often look back at what has unfolded over the past 6 years. I think about it, but I don't study it. But today is the sixth anniversary of my first YouTube video, and I wanted to create something…

On 9/30 the Shooting Cold lessons will be published as part of the SRV Style Solo Matrix.

The following three videos show off the solos that are taught in each of the lessons, beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

Enjoy!

Nashville is a guitar town and the perfect place for a gathering of amp, guitar and pedal builders. That's exactly what happened this past weekend at the 2013 Nashville Amp & Gear Expo. All but five of the eleven hotel…

Last week I spent a few days in Nashville for Summer NAMM. People have told me for years that Summer NAMM is a far less interesting show than Winter NAMM, so I wasn't expecting much. This year Summer NAMM was…

Last week I published the solo previews for the upcoming Whiskey, Win & Gin lessons (in the style of Tin Pan Alley). I've been releasing these Solo Matrix lessons in pairs, and this time the "other" lesson is called Stranded…

We (myself and my Editing Ninjaô Kevin) are hard at work finishing the next set of Solo Matrix lessons: "Stranded" and "Whiskey, Wine & Gin". They are in the styles of "Crossfire" and "Tin Pan Alley" respectively. I know that…