I was glad my pal Frank Bures came to hunt mushrooms because now I have this week’s column topic. Frank is a good friend and a fine writer.

Howdy folks, due to circumstances outside our control (thankfully, not health-related), the Michael Perry and the Long Beds show at The Schauer Arts Center has been rescheduled to April 23, 2022. Mike is still appearing at his Shawano event this Friday, September 17, and he and the band look forward to tunin’ up for you…View post

Glory of the road. Morning merch count.

Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: Everyone wins the grand prize at the potato poundage guessing game‘ can be see online here.

Inspired by a Tweet thread posted by old friend and deep-hearted songwriter Christopher Porterfield, I hereby re-up the brief essay “High Fashion” from Million Billion: I have just been to a fashion show in my own house, featuring me. The runway was the hallway to the bathroom, with a dogleg left past the woodstove into…View post