Susan Across the Ocean
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| Susan Across the Ocean | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Genre | Rock 'n' roll | |||
| Label | Watermelon | |||
| Producer | Walter Salas-Humara, David McNair | |||
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Susan Across the Ocean is an album by the American band the Silos, released in 1994.[1][2] They supported it with a North American tour.[3] A version of the album, Diablo, was released in Europe in 1993, minus two tracks.[4] Susan Across the Ocean was nominated for a 1994 National Association of Independent Record Distributors Indie Award in the "alternative rock" category.[5]
The album was produced by frontman Walter Salas-Humara and David McNair.[6] Salas-Humara was backed by Daren Hess on drums, Scott Garber on bass, and Mary Rowell on violin.[7] The band's guitar player, Manuel Verzosa, was killed in a car accident shortly after the recording sessions; the album is dedicated to him.[8] Jon Dee Graham played pedal steel on "All She Wrote".[8] Salas-Humara appreciated this lineup of the band and said that Susan Across the Ocean was the easiest Silos album to record.[9] "I'm Straight" is a cover of the Jonathan Richman song.[10] "Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around" was written by Michael Hall.[11] "Change the Locks" is a cover of the Lucinda Williams song; the Silos version inspired Tom Petty to record it.[12] "Wanna Ride" is a cover of a song by Pork, a Texas band.[13] The title track is about an older man wondering if he made a mistake by not marrying a girlfriend from his younger years.[14]
