Solomon Grundy was a one-off side project that was led by Screaming Trees bassist Van Conner. Screaming Trees used 1990 as a year of reassessment and to take a break from the tour-album-tour grind (throughout their history, friction has always reared its ugly head time and time again), and Conner used the time to record 11 of his original compositions, resulting in the outfit's release on the New Alliance label "Stone Soup and Other Stories. Shortly after the album's release, Screaming Trees reunited once more and signed a major-label deal with Epic, effectively killing Conner's side-project almost as soon as it was born. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
