From the beginning Grant's Lounge was more than just another night club. It's existence made a loud statement about people and the oneness of human beings. Also, it was from this modest establishment that much of what the world now knows as Southern Rock was conceived. Read More
He cut his teeth as a caddy and worked his way up to become everyone’s favorite bartender at Idle Hour Country Club. Edward Grant, Sr., had a knack for connecting with club patrons. He knew their preferences, quirks, and like any good bartender, when to lend an ear and when to offer advice. He carved a career out of it, booking additional bartending gigs at private parties and local lounges like the Barrel House in the former Ambassador Inn. Where there was Grant, it was known there would be good times, and he was so good at it, he often had his own following.
“Dad had a way with people — everybody from people on the street to some of your most well-known politicians, city officials, doctors and business executives. He related to all of them,” says his son Edward Grant, Jr., who carries an uncanny resemblance to his late father. read more
Ray 'Satellite Papa' Brown, John Griffin, and Paul Hornsby
pic by George Hester
Legend of the Lounge
Edward Grant, Sr. ought to be a Georgia Music Hall of Fame nominee. That’s no editorial comment, but a statement that upon examination of his role in etching the city’s public face, let alone Georgia music history, rolls off the tongue, logically and cool.
Such pronouncements come easily, of course, in light of Grant’s death on March 17 at the age of 76. There is a tendency to shroud the deceased in a gentle hue, downgrading the essential matter that all people are flawed and vulnerable, with feet stuck in “the mire-y clay,” as the old hymnal goes, all needing redemption. In the face of death, triumph is preferred, perhaps, more for the living, than the newly departed. Read More
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He cut his teeth as a caddy and worked his way up to become everyone’s favorite bartender at Idle Hour Country Club. Edward Grant, Sr., had a knack for connecting with club patrons. He knew their preferences, quirks, and like any good bartender, when to lend an ear and when to offer advice. He carved a career out of it, booking additional bartending gigs at private parties and local lounges like the Barrel House in the former Ambassador Inn. Where there was Grant, it was known there would be good times, and he was so good at it, he often had his own following.
