Daniel Romano

For those who believe country music has gone the way of polished pop stars, let small-town Ontario troubadour Daniel Romano show you the light.

His latest full-length, Sleep Beneath the Willow, is a genuine and strikingly somber reflection on not just the world around him but his own tortured soul. Country music, a successor of the blues, drips with the kind of dimly-lit shuffles that are prominent in Romano’s music.

His drawl is a rustic one and the subtle twang of each of these eleven tracks likely owes a lot to the home studio where Sleep Beneath the Willow was recorded.