Author, humorist, and musician Michael Perry started writing songs in the early 1990s. The Long Beds formed in 2004, releasing their first album in 2006. 

Every Long Beds show is built on roughneck ballads and freight train rockers interspersed with hilarious off-the-cuff tales from Mike’s diverse experience as a Wisconsin farm kid turned cowboy turned nurse turned best selling author and humorist (as featured on the recent PBS special Michael Perry: On the Road).