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Susan and the Surftones is an American surf instrumental band. The band is considered part of the “third wave” of surf-revivalist bands that formed in the 1990s. The band was started in 1993 in Rochester, NY, by lead guitarist Susan L. Yasinski, one of the very few female lead guitarists in instrumental surf music. Influenced also by early Elvis and the Beatles, 1960s garage and 1970s punk music, their sound incorporates traditional surf with elements associated with these other genres, such as the use of the combo-organ. The band’s first recording deal was with Gee-Dee Records in Hamburg, Germany, who released their first CD, Without A Word, in 1995. Subsequent releases on Gee-Dee and two other European labels, Surf Waves and OmOm, and four European tours, earned them a fan base in Europe as well as the US. Susan relocated to the West Coast in 2000 and reformed the band in Portland, Oregon. They continued to release albums both on CD and as digital releases. Nissan used two of their tunes, their cover of Ghost Riders in the Sky and Moon Woman ‘42, in a promotional DVD in 2005. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_a...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
