Highway 20 Ride

"Highway 20 Ride" is a song recorded by American country music group Zac Brown Band, written by lead singer Zac Brown and Wyatt Durette. The song was released in November 2009 as the fourth single from the band's 2009 album The Foundation. It is the band's third Number One on the U.S. country singles chart.

History

Wyatt Durette was inspired to write "Highway 20 Ride" while driving along Interstate 20 between Atlanta, Georgia and the Georgia/South Carolina state line in Augusta, Georgia to drop off his son, Wyatt IV, so that his mother could pick him up. Durette told Country Weekly magazine that, during one such trip, he began to think about "how [Wyatt IV] would perceive [him] as a father." After he showed some of his lyrics to Zac Brown, Brown helped Durette finish the song.

Music video

The music video was directed by Darren Doane and was released on December 22, 2009.

Critical reception

The song received many positive reviews. Matt Bjorke of Roughstock stated that it "give[s] country music their 'new Alabama.'" Leeann Ward of Country Universe gave the song an A, referring to it as "touching and tastefully constructed" and saying that it "may turn out to be one of the best singles of 2009." Mark Deming of Allmusic, in his review of the album, stated that the song, as well as "Free," "show the influence of the more sentimental branches of the Texas singer-songwriter tradition." Pierce Greenberg of Engine 145, in his review of the album, referred to the song as a "geographical heartbreak song." Jessica Phillips of Country Weekly magazine gave it four stars out of five, with her review calling it "honest, not syrupy" and describing Brown's "powerful vocals" as a standout.

List of highways numbered 20

Route 20, or Highway 20, may refer to:

International

European route E20

Canada

Ontario Highway 20

Quebec Autoroute 20

China

G20 Expressway

Czech Republic

I/20 Highway; Czech: Silnice I/20

India

National Highway 20 (India)

Israel

Ayalon Highway

Japan

Japan National Route 20

Korea, South

Iksan–Pohang Expressway

National Route 20

New Zealand

New Zealand State Highway 20 (Auckland Southwestern Motorway)

Turkey

, a motorway in Turkey as the ring road in Ankara.

United Kingdom

British A20 (Dover-London)

British M20 (Swanley-Folkestone)

United States

Interstate 20

U.S. Route 20

New England Route 20 (former)

Alabama State Route 20

California State Route 20

Connecticut Route 20

Delaware Route 20

Florida State Road 20

Georgia State Route 20

Illinois Route 20 (former)

K-20 (Kansas highway)

Kentucky Route 20

Highway 20 (Jordan)

Highway 20 is an East-West highway in northern Jordan. It is the main axis through Ajloun Governorate connecting it to Jerash and Mafraq.

Ontario Highway 20

King's Highway 20, commonly referred to as Highway 20, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Presently, it is a short 1.9 km (1.2 mi) stub between Highway 58 and Niagara Regional Road 70 in the town of Thorold, but until 1997 it connected Hamilton to Niagara Falls, serving several towns atop the Niagara Escarpment en route.

Highway 20 was first designated in 1930, serving as a bypass to the congested Highway 8. Soon after, a new cut was made into the Niagara Escarpment south of Stoney Creek, which would serve Highway 20 for 66 years. However, the new route failed to divert a significant amount of traffic from Highway 8. Subsequently, the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) was constructed through the Niagara Peninsula between 1937 and 1940. The opening of the Burlington Bay Skyway in 1958 bypassed the routing of Highway 20; it was truncated at the QEW in Stoney Creek in 1964 as a result. The routing remained unchanged between then and 1998, when all but a short stub of the highway was transferred to regional jurisdiction.