Daniel Romano seems to be a man of few words.

The deep-voiced country singer from Welland, Ontario, was reticent when Rolling Stone Country asked him about his new single “The One That Got Away (Came Back Today)” in April: “I don’t remember anything about writing that song.”

He was equally standoffish when GO! interviewed him about the new album from whence the single came, “If I’ve Only One Time Askin’,” and his career as a punk rocker-turned-country crooner. In fact, he skipped half the questions in the email interview.

“If I’ve Only One Time Askin’,” Romano’s fourth solo album, follows 2013’s “Come Cry With Me,” but was actually written and recorded in 2011 around the time he released his second album “Sleep Beneath the Willow.” His record label, New West — home to songwriting powerhouses Steve Earle and John Hiatt — convinced Romano to give the songs another look.

“I set it aside because the record before that had just been commercially released and it had no use at that time,” he wrote via email from a tour stop in Los Angeles. Romano will bring his band, The Trilliums — acoustic guitarist Kay Berkel, bassist Roddy Kuester and drummer (and Romano’s brother) Ian “Ski” Romano — to The Annex on Sunday.

“I had to revisit it (which I am not a fan of doing) to understand what it was and to try to find something in it that might convince me to actually allow it to exist.”

Needless to say, he found what he was looking for. The album’s 11 tracks seem tailor-made for the “tear in your beer” country music cliché, lyrically embracing the genre’s preoccupation with heartbreak, longing and loss.

Musically, the album rests between outlaw throwback and Romano’s own rock ’n’ roll past. Things get psychedelic in the closing moments of “The One That Got Away,” while songs such as the opening track “I’m Gonna Teach You” and “All the Way Under the Hill” carry Romano’s trademark loping country swagger — a style he’s dubbed “mosey.”

Romano is constantly creating. Case in point: “If I’ve Only One Time Askin’” isn’t the first album he’s abandoned after recording. When asked if he currently has any other full-lengths he’s left sitting around, he responded: “Yes, many.” Although, given his aversion to revisiting past recordings, it’s a good bet fans won’t be hearing these anytime soon.

When he’s not performing with The Trilliums or recording his albums, primarily by himself in his home studio in Canada, he moonlights as a leather worker and graphic designer. He’s designed artwork for fellow musicians M. Ward, Ben Kweller, Iron and Wine, Built to Spill and City and Colour AKA Dallas Greene, among others. His leather work focuses on guitar straps — he’s designed items for City and Colour and others.

Romano was born in Welland in 1985, and was first exposed to folk and vintage country through his folk-musician parents and grandparents, according to www.allmusic.com. He learned guitar, pedal steel, keyboards and drums growing up in Canada, but was drawn to punk rock as a teenager.

Inspired by Washington, D.C., hardcore scene founders Minor Threat, Romano and his brother, Ian, formed the raucous punk group Attack in Black in the early 2000s. However, the Romano brothers couldn’t escape their roots and later albums from the band showed their folk-rock leanings.

After becoming frustrated with the music industry, Romano decided to go further into do-it-yourself territory. His first offering as a solo musician was a 2009 collaboration with fellow Canadian singer-songwriters Julie Doiron and Frederick Squire, the appropriately titled “Daniel, Fred & Julie.” His solo debut, “Workin’ For the Music Man,” followed in 2010, and set the pattern of Romano playing nearly all the instruments on his albums himself.

According to Romano, he works this way out of necessity.

“Sometimes no one is around when something needs to be built, and in ‘need’ as in desire of the highest order,” he said. “Something must be done no matter the circumstance.”

Live, he relies on The Trilliums to flesh out the songs in whatever way they want. He said he would be interested in recording a future studio album with the group.

“They tend to put their own touches on as they see it,” Romano said. “I don’t like to stand in anyone’s way and it tends to mystically transform into something beyond gravity.”

— Reporter: 541-617-7814, bmcelhiney@bendbulletin.com