{"id":147630,"date":"2025-04-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=147630"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:35:53","slug":"victoria-canals-pop-brilliance-acoustic-guitar-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/victoria-canals-pop-brilliance-acoustic-guitar-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Canal\u2019s Pop Brilliance | Acoustic Guitar Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Victoria Canal\u2019s Pop Brilliance | Acoustic Guitar Sessions\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kq_49tZw-E8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On a recent tour, singer-songwriter Victoria Canal stopped by the&nbsp;<em>AG<\/em>&nbsp;studio to play some music and talk about her new album,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/43Xpm9u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slowly it Dawns<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this trio of songs\u2014\u201cJune Baby,\u201d \u201cYes Man,\u201d and \u201c15%,\u201d\u2014Canal shares not only her talents as songwriter, but as a vocalist and performer. Despite performing in a small room for an audience of just three (me; her tour manager; and her accompanying guitarist,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Callaghan Kevany), Canal put her entire heart and soul into playing these songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A theme emerged in this set and across the album, something Canal explains as the god and goblin complex: \u201cDepending on the day,\u201d Canal explained \u201cyou either wake up feeling like the shit, or like a piece of shit, and there\u2019s no in between.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can hear this idea manifest on the roller coaster-like album. Her songs are self-assured and exciting, but a sense of spiraling introspection creeps in. Canal\u2019s dedication to exploring feelings, both the positive and the difficult, ties it all together. \u201cMy mission [in songwriting] is to say something out loud that someone else feels, but hasn\u2019t given themselves the permission to say,\u201d says Canal, and that sentiment feels true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this trio of songs, Canal shares not only her talents as songwriter, but as a vocalist and performer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"In this trio of songs, Canal shares not only her talents as songwriter, but as a vocalist and performer.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1532],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1542],"class_list":["post-147630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-singing-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/small_acoustic-guitar-sessions-victoria-canal.jpg?fit=900%2C504&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1542,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"joeystringletter-com","display_name":"Joey Lusterman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d62788a8fb3719a625c95a649fc05b0d673d8921c9f2491f0a36cc588ee3c452?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Lusterman","first_name":"Joey","job_title":"","description":"Opinionated creative slash beginning guitarist. 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