There’s a small part of me that loves a good, well-picked, well crooned bit of singer-songwriter release. The part that rapidly devoured Case Studies album last year. The part that can’t believe he called his brother a ‘puss’ for years because he loved Kris Kristofferson and Bill Callahan. It’s not a huge part and as I get older, I find more and more it’s drowned out by the fuzzy, sweaty, spit-soaked garage portion of my mind, but it’s there and still holds court once in a while.

Donovan Quinn, a large part of San Francisco’s Skygreen Leopards, has a robust solo career under his own moniker (two solo releases, hanging out with Ben Crasny, and so on), a solo career I’ve been completely ignorant of until this morning.  ”Shadow On The Stone” is twangy and soft and slow, and Quinn sort of slurs his way above a wash of picked guitar and a slide’s melancholy elongation. His vocals lead the charge, just sad enough to give Quinn’s mellifluous delivery an edge of somber.

Donovan Quinn’s new album Honky Tonk Medusa is out on Northern Spy Records on V-Day.

Donovan Quinn - Shadow On The Stone