It can lead to some issues if you’re ill-prepared, but if you follow these steps to prepare for the worst, this. If your plan is to simply cross your fingers and go with it you may find yourself in a pretty bad spot. To hear a free Sound Bite from this album, call 202/334-9000 and press 8124. Yes, the key to weddings is FLEXIBILITY, but you need to have a plan if the weather gods decide to rain on your parade. KOKO TAYLOR - "Force of Nature" (Alligator). With a solid, horn-driven band providing additional power, this is a "Force" to be reckoned with. Some of the songs have a more topical flavor - Taylor celebrates her unyielding energy on the self-penned "63 Year Old Mama" and later establishes the ground rules of a relationship in no uncertain terms on "Don't Put Your Hands On Me," but there are timeless laments as well, including the ballads "If I Can't Be First" and "Nothing Takes the Place of You," both soulfully rendered by Taylor. I'm gonna rain on your parade, no, I won't. And I'll keep raining, raining, raining over you. Chorus I'm gonna rain on your parade, no, I won't take it again. Cause I know in time you'll see what you did to me. The former tune, dedicated to the late Albert King, finds Taylor commiserating mightily with guitarist Buddy Guy, while the latter owes a lot more to Big Mama Thornton's version than to Elvis's, although it's tastefully updated by keyboardist Jeremiah Africa. I hope you live, oh baby, so I can watch you cry. "Don't mess with mother nature," she cautions early on, with all the righteous and raucous indignation she can muster, "because you'll be sorry if you do, I'll rain on your parade and stomp all over you." The storm warnings gather a more personal thrust as the album unfolds and Taylor looks back on a life of hard knocks ("Born Under a Bad Sign") and hard- headed men ("Hound Dog"). CHICAGO BLUES queen KoKo Taylor, once billed as "The Earthshaker," is quite often not a happy woman on her new album, "Force of Nature." She's not given to tantrums, though. Dont mess with Mother Nature Cause youll be sorry if you do.
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