Dave Favours & The Roadside Ashes is a Sydney band that plays both sorts music - Country and Western - whose debut single recalls T Tex Edwards, the maverick punk-country artist from Dallas, Texas. The flip is a slightly more up-tempo, jailbreak song but Bon’s nowhere to be heard. It’s about a triple murderer named Cribb and an armed robber called Munday who broke out of an Australian lock-up for the criminally insane and went on on a rape and robbery crime spree.
The song’s played straight, with a thin harmonica solo and a Saturday arvo, drinking groove. Michael Carpenter contributes an organ wash that fills out the sound. I’m not crazy about alt.country unless I’m in the mood, but this is better than alright. Available as a vinyl single or download. 
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