{"id":5709,"date":"2013-01-25T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2013-01-28T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:11:07","slug":"romano-switches-to-different-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/01\/25\/romano-switches-to-different-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Romano switches to different attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Believe it or not, Daniel Romano doesn\u2019t spend all his time adjusting his cowboy hat. Amazing timing (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Deep, deep down, Daniel Romano, best known for his work in Canadian indie rock band Attack In Black, has a country music heart. With his solo career, which includes his recently released third album, Come Cry With Me<\/i>, Romano takes on a different persona of a classic country singer, brimming with nostalgia and channelling George Jones, Gram Parsons, and Hank Williams with his painful storytelling and western guitar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find country the most comfortable genre to write songs in, that\u2019s probably why I do it,\u201d says Romano. \u201cEven the songwriting\u2019s pretty similar to my other stuff. I just like it, it\u2019s my favourite.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Romano\u2019s version of classic country is timeless. Keeping a sense of humour about his craft, he imitates the sounds and styles of old country artists for his shows and music videos. He even tried to have his hair cut to look like George Jones for the music video of his single \u201cI Won\u2019t Let It.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe barber I went to didn\u2019t know the George Jones hairstyle, so I said, \u2018The Elvis,\u2019 and, \u2018Leave it over the ears,\u2019\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Romano believes his new album is a step forward. There\u2019s more of an emphasis on storytelling and hints of humour throughout, he explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome Cry With Me<\/i> is just straight country all the way through and that\u2019s what I wanted to do,\u201d he says. \u201cThe stories come from my brain, or things I heard. Usually I just make it up. I like to think I\u2019m a good storyteller. The key to country music is you gotta sing it like it happened to you, but thankfully it didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romano will be the opening act for married indie country duo Whitehorse when he plays in Victoria. Their sound is a lot more modern and intimate with pretty vocals and twangy guitar. Romano says he was asked to change his live show slightly to match the group he\u2019s sharing a stage with.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhitehorse is just a duo so they wanted me to perform as a duo,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s just gonna be me and my friend Spencer. Two guitars, two harmonies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel Romano
\nSunday, January 27
\nUpstairs Cabaret, $18
\nupstairscabaret.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deep, deep down, Daniel Romano, best known for his work in Canadian indie rock band Attack In Black, has a country music heart. With his solo career, which includes his recently released third album, Come Cry With Me, Romano takes on a different persona of a classic country singer, brimming with nostalgia and channelling George […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-january-23-1013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}