Five Easy Pieces (Criterion Collection)Following Jack Nicholson's breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson (The King of Marvin Gardens) devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper middle class childhood home, blue collar girlfriend

Their journey soon becomes a harrowing story of survival and escape as they are kidnapped by local farmers with nefarious intentions

with more following through the 1950 and beyond - he eventually had his last chart entry in 1979

Durham County)

Tompall Glaser is the forgotten outlaw

The music on the albums is also influence by more modern progressive rock and heavy rock represented by bands like The Mars Volta

saxophonist and bass clarinetist Marcus Strickland (Roy Haynes

plus song info on the LP sleeve

drawing the listener into a sustained dream state

in the very venues where they were premiered

resuming his solo career after a long break feels like both a reboot and culmination of his musical journey

We are thankful to each other for the strength and the ability to support each other through the process of creating this record

Featuring grisly murders