★★★★★
Daniel Romano's third solo album is steeped in the storytelling traditions of old-school country musicians like Hank Snow and Stompin' Tom, featuring beautifully arranged travelling songs about lost mothers, lost lovers and lost hope. Two Pillow Sleeper - one is for him and the other for his former love - typifies his talent for finding unique ways to express his sorrow...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
By Sarah BauerIn tracing the evolution of former Attack in Black singer Daniel Romano as a classic country songwriter, one can hear the steady formation of a distinct sonic landscape pulsing hard and true through the veins of that heart wrenching, '70's-era honky tonk sound. Building from his solo debut, Workin' for the Music Man (2010), to Sleep Beneath the Willow (2011), this landscape has become so vivid, so exquisitely entrenched in bygone lyricism and traditional arrangements that with a...
- exclaim.ca
2013-02-22
★★★★★
Daniel Romano's third solo album is steeped in the storytelling traditions of old-school country musicians like Hank Snow and Stompin' Tom, featuring beautifully arranged travelling songs about lost mothers, lost lovers and lost hope. Two Pillow Sleeper - one is for him and the other for his former love - typifies his talent for finding unique ways to express his sorrow...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-02-22
★★★★★
Ever since I first heard Daniel Romano's debut solo album Working For the Music Man in 2010--and then his rather extraordinary follow-up Sleep Beneath the Willow in 2011--I've been telling everyone who will listen that he's my favorite singer-songwriter working today. And I'm not alone. One of the first things that you find when you preach this particular gospel to people is that, if they know his stuff, they invariably respond with smiling, high-fiving agreement...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-02-22
★★★★★
Country music is a genre, of course, but it's also a geographical location: we expect at least some degree of physical southern roots or innate twang birthright from its ardent preachers, particularly those brave enough to wear a Nudie-inspired suit on stage and sing downright traditional songs in the vein of 40's Nashville or 50's Bakersfield: tales of women come and gone - mostly gone, actually - told with a wistful eye through a mouth that's maybe kissed more bottles of whiskey than babies...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-01-16
★★★★★
Former Attack in Black singer and songwriter Daniel Romano continues to expand upon his passion for roots music, upping the classic country ante considerably on his gorgeous new album. There's quite a distinction between the sound of Romano's songs here, compared to last year's Workin' for the Music Man, whose folk style and attitude actually bore a closer (albeit quieter) relationship to his punk rock roots...
- www.exclaim.ca
2011-04-11
★★★★★
The multitalented and seemingly indefatigable Romano (Attack In Black; Daniel, Fred and Julie) provides us with one of the more singular and singularly peculiar Canadian albums of 2010. Though bookended by folky tracks (both parts of Workin' for the Music Man), this is a throwback, traditional country album, rife with tracks concerned with traditional country subjects: heartbreak, travelling and solitude...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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