Question:  Black Sheets of Rain is an album by a former member of a group that first gained notability as what kind of band?

Context articles: Poison Years
Sherman H. Dudley
Luis Moro
Hüsker Dü
Bruce Driscoll
Black Sheets of Rain
Diamond Head (Japanese band)
MobileStar
Expulsion (band)
Anna Lundh

Poison Years is a compilation album by Bob Mould, who had been the guitarist and co-vocalist of the influential American rock band Hüsker Dü.
 It is essentially a condensed version of Mould's first two solo albums on Virgin Records, "Workbook" (1989) and "Black Sheets of Rain" (1990), and was released in mid-1994 after Mould had achieved considerable success with his new band Sugar.
 It contains 6 (out of 11) studio tracks from "Black Sheets" and 5 (out of 11) tracks from "Workbook", of which 3 are previously unreleased live versions.
 In addition, the album contains a studio outtake from the "Workbook" period, "All Those People Know", a live version of another non-album track, "If You're True", and a live cover version of "Shoot Out The Lights" from the eponymous 1982 album by Richard and Linda Thompson.
Sherman Houston Dudley (1872 – March 1, 1940) was an African-American vaudeville performer and theatre entrepreneur.
 He gained notability in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as an individual performer, a composer of ragtime songs, and as a member and later owner of various minstrel shows including the Smart Set.
 Dudley is also notable as one of the first African Americans to combine business with theater, by starting a black theater circuit, in which theaters were owned or operated by African Americans and provided entertainment by and for African Americans.
Luis Moro (born January 2, 1964) is a Cuban-born American actor, filmmaker, and writer.
 He first gained notability for co-writing, producing and acting in the film "Anne B. Real", which was nominated for two Independent Spirit Award.
Hüsker Dü was an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1979.
 The band's continual members were guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton, and drummer/vocalist Grant Hart.
 Hüsker Dü first gained notability as a hardcore punk band, later crossing over into alternative rock.
 Mould and Hart were the principal songwriters for Hüsker Dü, with Hart's higher-pitched vocals and Mould's baritone taking the lead in alternating songs.
Bruce Driscoll (born June 13, 1983) is a Brazilian American record producer, songwriter, guitarist, film composer and vocalist.
 He first gained notability as one half of the indie pop band Astaire (now Blondfire); co-writing, producing and self-releasing songs with his sister, Erica.
Black Sheets of Rain is the second solo album by former Hüsker Dü guitarist and singer Bob Mould and features the Modern Rock Top 10 hit "It's Too Late."
 The album was a return to a heavier sound following his folk influenced solo debut, "Workbook".
 Bassist Tony Maimone and drummer Anton Fier, both veterans of Pere Ubu, once again served as Mould's rhythm section.
Diamond Head was a Japanese band formed of session musicians and producers.
 They first gained notability as the backing and touring band for Hitomi Yaida.
MobileStar Network was a wireless Internet service provider which first gained notability in deploying Wi-Fi Internet access points in Starbucks coffee shops, American Airlines Admiral Club locations across the United States and at Hilton Hotels.
 Founded by Mark Goode and Greg Jackson in 1998, MobileStar was the first wireless ISP to place a WiFi hotspot in an airport, a hotel, or a coffee shop.
 MobileStar's core value proposition was to provide wireless broadband connectivity for the business traveler in all the places s/he was likely to "sleep, eat, move, or meet."
 MobileStar's founder, Mark Goode, was the first to coin the now industry standard expression "hotspot," as a reference to a location equipped with an 802.11 wireless access point.
Expulsion was a Death metal band from Vallentuna, Sweden that existed from 1988 to 1999.
 The band gained notability for being one of the earliest Swedish death metal bands, and that two of its members also played in black metal band Treblinka (later named Tiamat).
Anna Lundh (born April 5, 1987) is a Swedish television personality, adventurer and model.
 Anna Lundh first gained notability in 2009 when participating in and becoming a top finalist in the tenth Swedish season of Survivor.