This is again a release which scratches with only a very few elements on our presented music styles. FUNKY MUSTARD is a quintet hailing out of Houston, TX, and they like to provide us here their second CD release. I must admit that I’ve never-ever heard of them and their label Moosepie before (...I always thought to find moose-related things only in Sweden...), and was surprised to get serviced by them. The musically scenario here reminds me on a sort of US/Mexican Western film production stuff. It’s high-noon in a small village, sun is burning like hell and all people and animals around longing for cooler shadow places – it’s Siesta. Somewhere the sound of a harmonica played by a lonesome cowboy disturbs the silence. This may gives you an idea of the music, it is totally acoustic and "live" arranged and recorded, guitars, real drums, bass, the mentioned harmonica, but also trumpets and a real violin performance provided by the female band member Kristen Jensen, and of course the lead vocals by band leader Larry D. White. Produced with the helping hand of Rock Romano (also helping out with some lead guitar performances on two tracks) and his Houston-based Redshack Recording Studio, this stuff will appeal the Country/Trucker audiences, while it isn’t at all that straight produced, that it can animate the masses to do some Square dancing (uuhmmm...). Not at all my cup of tea, because I normally don’t consume this stuff (... and therefore I avoid to "rate" it here...), also the given elements of a Goth-Rock/Industrial-Metal outcome are rather limited, but I respect the production and its kind.