Local record label and management firm Amble Down has signed Michael Perry & the Long Beds and seeks to release the country folk band's second full-length album Tiny Pilot March 16, 2010. Download the album's first single "Somewhere South of Sunday" here (right-click the link and select Download Linked File). Preorders from AmbleDown.com begin Feb. 1.

Tiny Pilot features country stompers, roughneck folk ballads and fiddle-addled Americana twang. "I write about the farmers, preachers, and tough country-women who raised me," says Perry, "And yet certain wisdoms are available only from whistlers, frauds, and sinners, so I try to slide them a few lines as well.” Michael Perry & the Long Beds' first album Headwinded was released in 2006 (listen to a free track from our web shop here).

Michael Perry is internationally reknowned as the author of his memoirs Population 485, Truck and Coop and the essay collection Off Main Street.