[1] Long has released four solo albums; slice-of-life narratives typically delivered as hard rock with country music flourishes.
Critic Zac Johnson[2] favorably compares Long's music to Johnny Cash, writing, "both share the same kind of working-class, tough-guy, busted-knuckle, rattlesnake-eyed persona."
Sometime in the early 1990s, Long began a side project with the Laughing Hyenas' rhythm section, Kevin Munro and Jim Kimball.
They put together a concoction of field hollers, backwoods legends, hellbilly canon and mixed it with a semi-punk, semi-metallic musical assault that was best described as northern redneck, but intelligent, clamor.
The self-titled album continued on with "I'm Hell", the rawking "What Every White Nigger Knows", the eerie "Drown", the trip into Old NorthWest folk music with "Now I Truly Understand", the duet with Munro on "Mama's Reason to Cry", "Lucky" and "Sugarcane Zuzu", with its admonition from P-Bone's grandfather that "You can wish in one hand, and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first."
New songs were always in progress, with Long sometimes simply humming or yodling words during live performances over the new music before lyrics were complete.
Long then formed the band Reelfoot with bassist Dan Maister (1971–2005), and Mac McNeilly, ex-drummer of The Jesus Lizard, releasing the albums We Didn't See You on Sunday and Push Me Again in 1997 and 1998 respectively—again with Quarterstick.
During this time he directed the music video for the song You're the Reason by Hank Williams III, produced by former Babes in Toyland bassist Maureen Herman.
That same year his latest solo album God Bless the Drunkard's Dog was released on vinyl-only imprint Black Diamond, under Long's longtime European label, Southern Records.
In early 2009, Long returned to the U.S. to begin work on a documentary production with non-profit Project Noise and Tom Morello's Axis of Justice Foundation.