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AV: Yes, how does this small town Kilgore, Texas girl get here [laughs]. I say that at a lot of places
that I go to like how crazy that this is my life. I really enjoyed touring Europe. That was a goal of

mine that I really wanted to achieve, touring over there and that was just a really big highlight for
me. As well as getting to tour there, next year we’re going to be touring on my new album in the
fall, I think we’re going to go to the UK. We have three or four shows, I think in the UK over there.
We’re going to play in London, and I think it was Southampton and then somewhere else. I can’t
remember and I really loved France, south, the South of France. It was just beautiful. You drive
more than you play and just seeing all of the mountains and all of the little French towns that we
would go through, and it was very pretty and also a lot of the European countries are just really

beautiful and so I really enjoyed that.

BiTS: The touring in Europe must have been when you were with the the Blues Caravan, Ina
Forsman and Katarina Pejak who was the
keyboard player. Katarina Pejak, Ina Forsman and Ally Venable

AV: Yes, they were awesome. That was a
really fun tour because I got out of my
comfort zone as a guitar player because I
had to play their songs and they were
totally different than what I write, or I play
for my shows and so I got to learn some

R&B soul stuff on my guitar for Ina and then
contemporary singer-songwriter, I kind of
stepped back on those songs, they’re more
chilled and then with my rock set, I’m just
like rocking out, blues rock guitar. I thought

it was a really great show because it was
just a variety of so many different elements
of blues that people got and it was such fun.
I enjoyed it so much and I played so many
shows, so it was really cool.

BiTS: You’ve got a long life ahead of you, of course, and there are thousands of guitars out there.
How many guitars do you have at the moment?

AV: [Laughing] I don’t know. Let me count them in my head. Let me see. I don’t even know. I would
have to say more than 12 or 15 guitars, I think. More than that.

BiTS: And any one that’s outstanding, you just think it’s the most wonderful guitar in the world?

AV: I just started working with Gibson guitars and they sent a Les Paul Special double cutaway, so
it looks like junior, a Les Paul Junior and it has P-90 pickups in it and it’s all black and I just really
love that guitar. I love the sound that gets put down and how it plays, and I love it. I really like that
one [chuckles].

BiTS: Are you going to get a signature one before long?

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