Allison Road

"Allison Road"
Single by Gin Blossoms
from the album New Miserable Experience
Released	1994
Format	Cassette tape
Genre	Power pop[1]
Label	Fontana, A&M
Writer(s)	Robin Wilson
Gin Blossoms singles chronology
"Found Out About You" (1994) "Allison Road" (1994) "Til I Hear It from You" (1995)
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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." His 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

1. Unterberger, Andrew. "Top Ten Mediocre Post-Grunge / Alternative Bands". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
2. Boehlert, Eric (15 October 1994), "The modern age". Billboard. 106 (42):95

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics