Allison Road

"Allison Road" is a single from the Gin Blossoms. The song is played but quietly in the movie The Best of Me (film) when Dawson and Amanda are driving to their prom.

This article is about the Gin Blossoms' single. For the video game, see Allison Road (video game).
"Allison Road"
Single by Gin Blossoms
from the album New Miserable Experience
Released1994
GenrePower pop[1]
Length3:21
LabelA&M
Songwriter(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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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 Interstate 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


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