Michael Perry & the Long Beds

Michael Perry’s original songs are a reflection of his life experiences. Raised in rural Wisconsin by farmers, preachers and tough country women, his songs reflect “certain wisdoms” available only from whistlers, frauds and sinners. Ranging from straight-up twang to churchly harmonies and populated by characters drawn straight from rural and small-town America, they launch from places like the overpass outside Perry’s beloved hometown of New Auburn, Wis. (population: 562), a gospel service in a granary, and the kitchen floor of a woman about to drop a world of hurt on her drunken husband.