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JC
BROUCHARD : Your good guy's gonna go bald
collection : "Not
available"
ref : not available 020
release date : august 9 2009
format : 7" single
Side A : Your
good guy's gonna go bald
(adapted
by JC Brouchard from Your
good girl's gonna go bad, by B. Sherrill and G. Sutton)
Side B : I'm
waiting for my wife
(adapted by
JC Brouchard from I'm
waiting for the man, by Lou Reed)
Credits
:
Produced by JC
Brouchard.
Recorded in Mareuil-sur-Ay and Nantes, July 2009.
JC Brouchard is backed by The Ghosts of American Musiconauts Orchestra.
Guest star on Your good guy's gonna go bald
: Phil Rogers, pedal steel guitar.
Cover design and liner notes : JC Brouchard
Cover photo : Denis
Hallinan
When
I listen to songs in English, I usually try to decipger the lyrics and
often to translate them to French. Long ago, this translation habit led
me to record Bébé
Tchernobyl. In the near future, maybe I'll end up recording my
covers album JC va campagne, in reference to Jonathan
Richman's Jonathan goes country.
But sometimes, before switching from English to French, my mind skids
and starts going awry, changin a word here or a letter there in the lyrics
of a song.
That's what happened recently, first with Your good girl's gonna go
bad, the title song of Tammy Wynette's first album in 1967, covered
in an instrumental version by Richman : this is no coincidence.
The original song sees the cleancut girl threaten her guy to actually
go bad, if really he prefers girls with a dissolute life. While trying
to change the lyrics to sing them from the point of view of a man, I came
to Your good guy's gonna go bald, a metaphysical warning which
seemed to me full of teachings :
He'll change
even if it makes you unhappy
From then on you're gonna see a different him
Because your good guy's gonna go bald
He's gonna have the shyniest baldhead no one's ever had
If you like'em spruced up wigged up then you ought to be glad
Cause your good guy's gonna go bald
You won't be surprised
to learn that the lyrics for I'm waiting for my wife came to me
one day while I was waiting outside a shop for Mrs Brouchard, singing
to myself I'm waiting for the man by The Velvet underground. I
ended up with this :
I'm waiting for
my wife
Twenty-six minutes just in this shop
Then the next one, 2, 3, 5
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my wife
Here she comes, arms full of bags
Three pairs of shoes and some chocolate
She's never early, she's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait
I'm waiting for my wife
JC
Brouchard, August 2009.
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