P.W. Long (aka Pbone aka Preston Cleveland) is the lead singer and guitar player for the bands Wig, Mule and Reelfoot (also known as P.W. Long's Reelfoot). Purported to be the brother of the frontman of the Laughing Hyenas, Long appears to have been born and raised in the Ypsilanti, Michigan area. He eventually ended up in Detroit.

His earliest work was with the band Wig, and it is his voice that you hear on the "Lying Next to You" record. Sometime in the early 1990s, Long began a side project with the Laughing Hyenas' rythmn section, Kevin Munro and Jim Kimball. They put together a rather twisted concoction of field hollers, backwoods legends, hellbilly canon and mixed it with a semi-punk, semi-metallic musical assault that was best described as a rather unholy northern redneck, but intelligent, clamor.

Calling themselves Mule, they released a 7" in 1991 or 1992 with the song Tennessee Hustler. Their first self-titled album, produced by Leonard John (purported to be Steve Albini), debuted shortly thereafter and was truly one of the most unique offerings of the early 1990s.

While it had the raucousness of the Hyenas, and certain punk and alternative sensibilities, Mule was truly a new breed of music. The album opened with P.W. shouting "I left out to the sound of buckshot rain" on the fantastic "Mississippi Breaks," a song about being on the run, wet, tired and just plain old beat down. Themes we had all heard before, but never this loudly, or with this much odd guitar over a galloping ryhtmn. Come to found out, as P.W. himself later admitted, Long didn't really know how play to guitar when he started with Mule, as lot not all that "slickly" to use his word. Instead, he used a variety of open tunings and such, coupled with a just a simple feel for what was right, to create a truly unique guitar sound. Never bounded by the need for classic guitar solos, P.W. still put the guitar at the forefront with innovative melody lines and breaks.

The self titled album continued on with the inspired I'm Hell, the raucous What Every White Nigger Knows, the eerie Drown, the trip into Old NorthWest Folk Music on Now I Truly Understand, the duet with Kevin on Mama's Reason to Cry, Lucky and Sugarcane Zuzu, with its admonition from Pbone's grandpappy that "You can wish in one hand, and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first."