INSTANT KARMA!
15 Easy Pieces
Karen Black was one of the finest film actors of the 1970s. Now Cass McCombs has revealed her lost parallel career as a singer-songwriter
Guided by voices: Black in the 1970s
COURTESY OF THE KAREN BLACK ESTATE SUNSET BOULEVARD/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES;
Back to Black: with Cass McCombs
THROUGHOUT an acclaimed and award-winning film career, Karen Black always seemed to find an opportunity to sing. “She sang in Nashville, she sang in Cisco Pike... even if it’s just a tiny bit like in Five Easy Pieces, she found a way to sing when she and Jack Nicholson are in a car,” says self-confessed movie nerd Cass McCombs. “She snuck it in all the time, and I picked up on that.”