Later in 1989 SCW, having shed their recent disco-jazz-funk-punk live band identity, returned to their experimental roots and embarked on a new project, with the band now based on the musical trio of Roba, dWM and Jeff-0, and with PnrH providing graphic design and Cathie Whittaker providing costume design. Also around this time SCW began their video collaboration with Bruce Becker (aka bdb) and Catherine Willson, who were experimenting with live Amiga computer graphics.

They chose the name of the next project based on something they stumbled across at the local electronics (and other junk) surplus store (R.I.P. Active Surplus). There they found a bunch of plastic fold-out 3-cassette packages titled God Family Country, by Zig Ziglar, an early self-help guru.

They decided then and there that the next SCW project would be a 3-part album called God Family Country, and so bought up all of the available packages to insert their own cassettes as a deluxe limited-edition 3-cassette package.

Having figured out the concept and the packaging, they then realized that they had to actually create some music to fill those 3-cassette packages! Having also recently acquired a couple of Ensoniq EPS samplers they set about our musical task. And in the typical SCW way of doing things they decided to first present God Family Country as a live show, and then release the deluxe 3-cassette package a year later… and the CD would be released even later!

More to come…