There’s a great cover by Ike and Tina Turner, that has in the first few chords a lyric that includes “…Why now, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy…”, and Proud Mary in Collingwood exudes that same feeling of the song that helped propel Tina Turner into mega stardom. I…
Cornersmith Marrickville
I first came to know about Marrickville as a teenager, watching the little Phillips colour TV in Canberra, as Jeff Fenech pounded his way to 4 world titles as a boxer. Fenech was known as the ‘Marrickville Mauler”. But it would be a couple of decades before I actually set foot in Marrickville to sample…