Episode Description
On this episode, we speak to local legend, engineer, musician, and founder of Tempest Recording, Clarke Rigsby, who knew the band before their prolific output of metaphysical material in the 1980s with the Cloaven Tape series. With the release of the legendary compilation "Ominous Clouds - Produced For Citizens For A Non-Nuclear Future", which featured the Sun City Girls' first vinyl appearance, at the time, when the group was a quartet with LInda Cushma, as well as local groups like Hans Olson, who founded the influential Sun Club in Tempe, Jamaican-based blues singer Big Pete Pearson, Pete Cannon, who played in Poet's Corner, and Rigsby himself, we virtually travel 1,708 miles across country to better understand the genesis of the band, and their heroic history.