She has already been called " the hardest working female musician in Canada, and I think that's not an exaggeration, because during the last two years, she did about 450 shows on festivals, in theaters, bars and every kind of venue, even living rooms. She 's got raving reviews for "Living Room Sessions" , her release of 2005 and this one "Sweet Something Steady", produced by no-one less than Gurf Morlix, a well known man for our readers. With this wonderful production, Romi's fanbase kept growing and she got a lot of attention in America and the rest of the world. So, it is time for her now to join the big names, like Mary Gauthier, Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams. She was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Canadian equivalent of Austin Texas. At fifteen, she climbed on stage somewhere near her hometown to sing some songs, and the audience kept applauding and cheering. This made such an impression on her , that she knew what she wanted to do from then on: Sing.

Now, seventeen years later, Romi has shared the stage with the big names of Americana & singer-songwriters. To mention just a few: Joe Ely, Billy Joe Shaver, Butch Hancock, Bo Ramsey, Fred Eaglesmith, Iris Dement and we can go on like that. Her superb voice, along with some tight guitar playing and strong, touching lyrics, turn most of her songs into real gems in the Americana genre. The cd starts off with one of the best songs I have heard for months: "Eight More Days" , in which Dan Walsh plays an absolute fantastic solo on slide. Real chicken skin music. Followed by "Desperately", a moving, slow song with Morlix on backing vocals. Romi's voice can cope with every genre, the harder stuff, like "How I Roll", pure country songs like "Long Way Home" and "Let Me Run", or even blues, in "The Other Dame" the rough edgy side of her voice shows, and she sings the blues like Janis Joplin, while in the meantime Gurf takes over on guitar and plays it "beer bottle slide" way. Another really marvelous song is the title song "Sweet Something Steady", in which she sound a bit like Lucinda Williams, but of course without that "Southern Drawl". As strong as the cd started, it also ends that way. In "Bible" she tells us she can tell the difference between bad and good without it. "I Don't Need No Bible" she sings, while Dan Walsh plays a beautiful slide again. A musical masterpiece, this "Sweet Something Steady".

- Ronny Bervoets, ROOTSTIME, Belgium