Keith Carradine--I'm Easy (1976)

     The Carradine family to me is like the Baldwin's of today...there are so many of them, and all of them are actors, I can hardly keep them all straight. So...which one of them played in the TV show Kung Fu (That would be David). Isn't he the same one that sung that song, "I'm Easy" in 1976 (uh no....that would be Keith).
     Actually David would play a role in the life of his step-brother Keith. After a semester studying drama at Colorado, Keith quit and moved in with David who encouraged (and paid) for him to study drama and music. His first big break was being cast in the original Broadway version of "Hair". His first major role in a film was a Roger Altman film, "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" in 1971. This would being a fruitful relationship with Altman as he also was in, "Thieves Like Us" in 74, and his defining role of Tom Frank in the 1975 movie, "Nashville".
     Several of the stars in the movie wrote and performed their own songs, and Carradine did as well. "I'm Easy" ended up winning a Golden Globe and a Oscar for Best Original Song. This lead to a recording contract, which produced two albums, but this song was the only one that produced chart action (reaching #17 in the summer of 1976)
     In the years since, Keith has performed on stage some, but his main focus in the last 30 years have been movies and television.