Cavern Studios (2)

Gerald W. Riegle rented space in the old Pixley Quarry, an active limestone mine, his intent was to work a vein of recorded sound. One of the strangest recording studios ever built, the aptly-named and actually subterranean Cavern Sound soon collected a cast of characters—the country-loving general manager, the young rocker, the Sun Records rockabilly pilot—and a dedicated clientele of religious groups, schools, country singers, and rock ‘n’ roll dreamers hoping to stumble across the true sound of the underground.

From 1967 to 1973, Riegle and his partners/engineers Cavern Sound Corp. at Iowa State University.

Their in-house record labels Centennial Custom Records, Ltd. share the same physical address and put out numerous releases of different genres of music from the midwest region.