Biography
The roots of Houston's Grandfather Child stretch to 2009, the year Lucas Gorham—still active in the punk rock band Satin Hooks—watched the gospel-music documentary Sacred Steel. The lapsteel guitar's raw power and drive, an instrument Robert Randolph was then introducing to wider audiences, left Gorham transfixed. He exited Satin Hooks, mastered the lapsteel on his own, started crafting secular material rooted in the electric-gospel language of sacred steel, and, with assistance from three of Houston's leading musicians (drummer Ryan Chavez, Robert Ellis, and Geoffrey Muller on bass and guitar), launched Grandfather Child.
Fusing that electric-gospel approach with country, gutbucket blues, R&B, funk, and soul while spotlighting Gorham's amazing electric lapsteel work, the band quickly built a devoted local following. In 2010 they issued the 7" EP Waiting for You. Their self-titled debut album arrived on New West Records two years later.
Fusing that electric-gospel approach with country, gutbucket blues, R&B, funk, and soul while spotlighting Gorham's amazing electric lapsteel work, the band quickly built a devoted local following. In 2010 they issued the 7" EP Waiting for You. Their self-titled debut album arrived on New West Records two years later.
Albums