Photo: Lindsay Steele Covid-19 hasn’t silenced Texas’s favorite new gunslinger, Ally Venable. Venable’s idea of “spreading a positive message of the love,” as she describes her latest release, is to round up her friends and rattle your speakers with songs that proclaim “better times ahead.” Still in her 20s, the guitarist’s path carreened through childhood church choirs, teenage influences of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Miranda Lambert, early releases earning Top 10 chart placings and ETX Awards, onward to 2019’s #2 Billboard-charting Texas Honey. Venable’s upward trajectory continued with house-rocking sets on the Blues Caravan tour. Not one to let a global pandemic derail her momentum, Venable worked on