Housecoat Project

Led by San Francisco punk poet/songwriter Meri St. Mary, this band made a significant splash in the mid-'80s with their excellent musicianship, vivid songwriting and riveting live performances on the West Coast, and then nationally in 1987 when their debut LP Wide Eye Doo Dat was released. With even better songs, production and playing than before, they recorded this 2nd album in 1989, though the band disintegrated in the process and it was never released. It's become something of an underground legend however, with test pressings circulating among traders and collectors for the past 20 years. Now they have reformed with a new rhythm section, and this is finally coming to light, with the 1989 tapes freshly remastered and with great full color artwork by underground painter John Whitehead and a lyric/photo insert.