MICAH HOWard

Alt Country / Outlaw Country / Southern Grunge

Pairing yesterday’s country music with a refreshing modern sound, outlaw and Marine Corps veteran Micah Howard began making music after receiving his first hand-me-down guitar from his father. When Howard left the Marine Corps in 2015, he decided to commit to music full time. Micah started combining southern rock, grunge rock, blues, southern Appalachian bluegrass and outlaw country reflective of the classic sound native to his roots.

Micah’s listeners have compared his vocals to that of Chris Cornell (Sound Garden) and Ronnie Van Zant (Lynyrd Skynyrd) in a haunted format. His use of minors in his songwriting are some that are inspired by Thom Yorke (Radiohead), but pay high tribute to country and blues music theories. His solo acoustic play is set to the tune of the cracking timber and flowing creeks of the southeastern US. When he is backed by his band “The Southern Ghosts”, they rally to inspire a muddy cocktail of Alice In Chains, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dan Tyminski, Radiohead, Hank Jr., and the like.

Micah was coined the "Southern Ghost” by his good friend and fellow songwriter, Phillip David Harris. Phillip and Micah wrote their first song together “Wings of Mercy” in just one afternoon. Phillip proclaimed “It’s like you're a southern ghost come to present times to sing stories about those who lived during hard times.”

Micah is currently working to streamline new music and releases, of which he is looking to draw from the sounds of the America. He is working hard to step back in time with a sound reminiscent of the southern heritage that first echoed through the hardwoods of the Appalachians and the tall Loblolly’s of the low country.