Allison Road
"Allison Road" | ||||
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Single by Gin Blossoms | ||||
from the album New Miserable Experience | ||||
Released | 1994 | |||
Format | Cassette tape | |||
Genre | Power pop[1] | |||
Label | Fontana, A&M | |||
Songwriter(s) | Robin Wilson | |||
Gin Blossoms singles chronology | ||||
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"Allison Road" is a single from the Gin Blossoms.
History
In 1989, Robin Wilson passed by a sign on his way to El Paso that read "Next Exit Allison Road." The friend with whom he was riding had a sister named Allison, and so they stopped to take a picture. Five months later, Wilson had the picture and was bored. In a Billboard interview from 1994, he recalled:
I walked to the other room, sat down in front of the television and turned on CNN. And the moment the TV turned on I heard that little melody in my head; 'On Allison Road.' And I was like, 'Shit!' So I turned off the TV, climbed over the couch and went back in my bedroom and the song was pretty much done 20 minutes later.[2]
The exit sign for Allison Road is located on I-10 in Roosevelt, Texas.
Footnotes
- ↑ Unterberger, Andrew. "Top Ten Mediocre Post-Grunge / Alternative Bands". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ↑ Boehlert, Eric (15 October 1994), "The modern age". Billboard. 106 (42):95