 I quit drinkin’ after that movie.”

Produced by David Anderle, "Easter Island" featured the same coterie of session aces that played on Kristofferson’s recent solo records, providing a loose sound, and several of the songs were co-written with band members Mike Utley and Stephen Bruton.As William Ruhlmann of AllMusic asserts, the songs Kristofferson and his cohorts came up with had commercial potential