“She just sang all day.” Grant also tried his hand at trying to become a country star, around the time Lana was 11. “Al, what a great guy he was,” he remembers. He says he always knew she had musical talent, back from when she was a toddler and would serenade their next door neighbor. But something like, say, ? That was gold.ĭuring Lana’s childhood, the two of them bonded musically over Paul Simon and the Beach Boys. Grant realized that nobody would be searching his name when looking for a house. (Mom and Rob are now both in Florida.) He was working as a real estate agent, though he kept an eye on a nascent thing called the internet. The family moved up to Lake Placid, in the Adirondacks. When Lana was born (née Lizzy Grant), he and her mom found themselves dragging a stroller up a five-story walk-up. Grant would often linger in a small bookstore near his office, where he would flip through guides about fly fishing and the outdoors, dreaming of a simpler life. It was the ‘80s version of Mad Men trade in the three-martini lunch for a frazzled coworker doing deskside coke. The job was demanding and its pressures unrelenting. He came up with the Playtex bra slogan “Thank Goodness It Fits,” which turned into a $500 million campaign.
“It’s fun that there's more of a tangible outcome from all of that time alone on the water,” she tells him.Īs an adult, Grant landed in New York City, working in advertising on Madison Avenue. Lana, who’s been watching her father deep-sea fish for years (and included a song titled “Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he's deep-sea fishing” on her most recent album) was interested in seeing how he translated those experiences into music.
He also seeks out his thrills by shark fishing-he regales me with a story about a 12-footer dragging his boat for two and a half hours-though he always throws them back.īeyond the album title, most of the songs have nautical names, like “Moon Rise Over the Ocean,” “Setting Sail On a Distant Horizon,” and “The Poetry Of Wind and Waves.” A six-minute ambient looped track called “The Mermaids Lullaby” is what Ariel might hear if she did shrooms in Joshua Tree. Both father and daughter have a taste for storm chasing. He has actually been lost at sea at times, stranded alone in heavy fog out in the Atlantic, which he recounts with excitement. The ocean has been a constant, renewable source of inspiration for Grant.
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