Bernard's latest release spotlights his cool improvisational style, in which jazz, funk, and lots of other things are blended into an instrumental stew that is deliciously fun to listen to. Texture and groove are the main things here, and, unlike a lot of cats who don't like to venture out of the jazzbo "green" zone, Bernard has no problem in laying back on his Benson-esque picking ("Fast Fun" is a good example) to work in some bottleneck action on things like "Gen Pop" and "How Great Thou Art," or spice it up with echo freakouts and a pinch of fuzzy Octavia on "Awanna." The beats delivered by this quartet are morbidly obese, the guitar playing is full of sly twists, and the net result is a jazz album with all the hipster elan of a '66 Dodge Polara - Art Thompson