FTP is simply Bart playing anything he can get his hands on, Unit 3 banging the skins, and Hans strumming an acoustic and lending his voice. The sound of the Flat Tail Pickers is best described in this excerpt from the Tahlequah Times.

“…Imagine if a choir of angels got wasted on low-end booze and found out, at the peak of drunkenness, that their babies left them for some jackass demons. Then imagine that they picked up honky-tonk instruments and played songs that mean a heck of a lot to a wounded, but highly pissed off, heart. That, my friends, is the Flat Tail Pickers sound. It’s like a train is coming and you ought to dance right on the tracks. Drummer Dusty Spetz kept a savage beat, and Sammy Hagar of the week, Hans Halvorsen, did a convincing if not spectacular job. Yet again, it was Featherstone’s wild talent that carried the show. He’s a true musical wizard and the best picker in these parts. The FTP sound has the sweet undertones of a finely tuned 1970 Ford truck that gently rumbles your soul…”