Micah Gilliam

St. Augustine’s Micah Gilliam is a savagely unbridled songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, audio engineer, stand-up comedian, philosopher, and podcast host.

Gilliam is most likely the lovechild of David Bowie and Gillian Welch, raised by his uncle Tom Petty with weekly visits to see his cousin Chris Thile. His sound is so vastly influenced it's hard to pinpoint where exactly Gilliam falls in terms of genre. New wave, rock, classical, glam rock, folk, funk, country, blues, rockabilly, bluegrass, electronica—the list of Gilliam's capabilities is truly endless. He seems to play everything except polka. 

Gilliam is one half of the husband and wife duo, The WillowWacks, and was featured on St. Augustine's singer-songwriter collaboration album, Local Honey with his wife, Lauren Gilliam. His early training in classical music gave Gilliam a strong foundation to build the pillars of his dream sound, which he's achieved with his brainchild rock band, The Young Step. As founder and owner of Boombox Recording Studio here in St. Augustine, Gilliam has years of engineering and studio experience, and decades of performance history in national touring bands, sharing the stage with everyone from Shawn Colvin to Dan Tyminski.