Dave Favours & the Roadside Ashes - Service Station Chicken (2025)

The album is easily the most realised in the band’s career and is the perfect showcase for their unique blend of Oz indie rock meets twangy alternative country.

Favours love of heartland rock acts like Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and the Rolling Stones comes through on Dinin’ Out, Dreaming with the Dead and A Town that Never Was. Of course, there’s plenty of alt-country in the mix as well, with the Wilco-esque Rosalie and a countrified cover of Didn’t Tell the Man (Radio Birdman/The Hitmen), complete with acoustic guitar, pedal steel and honky tonk piano.

According to Favours, “I’ve always loved albums that don’t subscribe to any particular style. We’re often put in the alt-country pigeonhole because at times we have acoustic guitars and pedal steel. There’s dobro and violin on this record as well. But we also pride ourselves in being able to deliver four-on-the-floor rock’n’roll – some call it cowpunk. A Saturday night gig can have a very different feel to a Sunday afternoon show and we’re always mixing it up. I wanted this album to represent that.”

The album’s title track is probably the best representation of Favours’ philosophy. “I can hear my love of 80’s era Saints in that one but there’s a lot of Lucero and Drive-By Truckers in there as well.”