Artist:Keith Carradine
Song:I'm Easy
Album:Singers and Songwriters: Late '70s
Actor Keith Carradine had success on his brief foray into music when I'm Easy was a top 20 hit in 1976. Carradine wrote and performed the song in the 1975 film Nashville. Carradine recorded two albums in the late 70s and then returned to acting. He was born Aug. 8, 1949 in San Mateo, CA. Of course his father was legendary actor John Carradine and his brothers are all actors too. His childhood was troubled as his father drank and his mother was mentally ill. They divorced in 1957 and after a custody battle, Carradine was raised by his maternal grandmother. After performing in high school, Carradine studied drama for one semester at Colorado State University. After returning to California, his older brother David Carradine helped him get into acting. After appearing in the 1969 Broadway musical Hair, Robert Altman cast him in the 1972 film McCabe & Mrs. Miller and the 1974 film Thieves Like Us. Altman knew that Carradine could sing and play guitar. So he was a natural as womanizing folk singer Tom Frank in the 1975 film Nashville. After he wrote and performed I'm Easy in Nashville, ABC Records released it as a single and it reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it won the Best Original Song Oscar. Carradine signed a two album deal with Asylum Records. The 1976 album I'm Easy did OK. Carradine rerecorded I'm Easy for the album. He wrote all the songs on the album. L.A. Express drummer John Guerin produced and arranger Dave Grusin played piano and led the band of studio musicians. After his 1978 album Lost & Found, Carradine returned to acting and never recorded again. Neither the Nashville soundtrack or Carradine's album are available but you can get I'm Easy on this 2CD Time Life various artists comp. Carradine still appears regularly in films and on TV. He will appear in the upcoming Blumhouse film They Listen. On TV he mostly does TV movies and guest shots. But he was a regular on the series Madam Secretary a few years ago. Carradine's one notable singing appearance was in the 1991 Broadway musical The Will Rogers Follies for which he was Tony nominated. Here's Keith Carradine performing I'm Easy in the 1975 film Nashville.
Thanks for posting this song Frank. It is one of the few songs from the 70's I do not like. For some reason I never liked this song. Don't know why. I did see the Movie Nashville years ago and heard the song in the movie. Did not like it or the movie. Thank-you Frank for the information. David.
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