It is a Saturday morning and I have just finished playing a song on my 100-year-old upright piano. For the record, the piano is in better shape than I am. The song is “Proud Mary,” written and sung by ...
When John Fogerty first started writing the lyrics to “Proud Mary,” a riverboat didn’t factor into it. “She gets off the bus every morning and goes to work and holds their lives together,” he has said ...