Five Easy Pieces the road life of its hero. We follow him through bars and bowling alleys, motels and mobile homes, and we find him rebelling against lower-middle-class values even as he embraces them. In one magical scene, he leaps from his car in a traffic jam and starts playing the piano on the truck in front of him; the scene sounds forced, described this way, but Rafelson and Nicholson never force anything, and never have to. Robert Eroica Dupea is one of the most unforgettable characters in American movies. He named the film the best of 1970, and later added it to
Easy Pieces aware it's a little cry for help." Cole would later disown some of his writing on the album, stating in 1990, "There are two terrible songs on "Easy Pieces", one called "Grace" and another called "Minor Character" which is literally the worst lyric ever written. I really believed I was the Raymond Carver of song when I wrote that. It's truly appalling." Following promotion for "Rattlesnakes", the band went back into the studio with Paul Hardiman again to record the follow-up. However, the relaxed atmosphere that had surrounded the recording of the first record was not replicated – Polydor had