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01. St. Vincent De Paul 4:21 --
02. Curveball 3:15 --
03. Potholes 3:56 --
04. Breakfast For One On the Fifth of July 3:46 --
05. Lady Luck 4:07 --
06. When You're Dreamin' 3:08 --
07. Sacred Wreck 3:22 --
08. Two Yellow Roses 4:06 --
09. I Must Have Done Something Right 4:58 --
10. New Year's Prayer 4:53 --
11. I Fall to Pieces 3:31 -- -- -- -- -- - -- -- Ed Romanoff's 2012 self-titled debut is a gritty masterwork of melancholic and atmospheric Americana. The album evokes the solo work of Mark Knopfler, the swampy mysticism of New Orleans, and the kind of redemption you find at the end of an introspective night with a good bottle of whiskey. "There is something compelling about why I'm doing this now," Ed says thoughtfully. "There is truth in a good song, and when you pursue it, and write about something real, you find out something real and true about yourself. And the more you do it, the more it helps you heal, and it heals others in a similar way. It's a crazy circle but it works."
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Ed's eleven-track debut cuts a wide emotional swath, from the good-natured sorry-I-messed-up sentimentality of "I Must Have Done Something Right" to the brave vulnerability of "St. Vincent De Paul." Ed wrote the latter when he made a pilgrimage with Americana artist Mary Gauthier to the orphanage where she had been left on the day she was born. They became good friends and Mary asked Ed to join her on the road as sideman, writing partner, and later in taking a DNA test, as she wanted to learn more about her biological past. In taking the test, Ed found out recently the father he grew up with was not his biological father. "Sometimes you write a song and sometimes it writes you back," he says.
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