His interest in blues and folk music was ignited by becoming a fan of Bob Dylan while living in New York with Oddjobs, which inspired him to learn guitar.
Riemenschneider's review called it "a less-than-happy mix of haunting dirges and candlelight ballads" that he felt was among "this year's prettiest local [discs].
"[7] A full-length debut record, Find Your Way Home, followed in 2007, which included a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea".
It was produced by Ben Durrant, who also worked on Andrew Bird's Armchair Apocrypha and Martin Dosh's The Lost Take, and would later join Roma di Luna as a full band member.
[3] Riemenschneider named Casting the Bones one of the best albums of 2008, praising the "intimate, evocative songs" and Leaneagh's "serene, siren-like singing".
[4][11] Thematically, the album dealt with not only new life and parenthood, but the loss and grief from the recent deaths of close friends and family members.
[8] Ross Raihala of the St. Paul Pioneer Press praised the album's diverse sound, saying that it "uses dusty Americana as a base and adds blues and soul to the mix to create alluring, highly dramatic music.
5 in a list of the top 10 Minnesota records of 2010 in the Star Tribune's annual survey of Twin Cities music critics, which called it "a truly soul-searching batch of powerful songs.
[15] Roma di Luna reunited in 2017 for a concert fundraiser for the American Indian organization Honor the Earth, backed by the 30-member Prairie Fire Lady Choir.