"Regardless of what anybody else thinks, I'm doing the best I can. This is me. It's real," he says.
If the new disc reflects his personality, then Goudie is a little bit country and a lot rock 'n' roll. "What I was going for was a cross between what I grew up listening to -- a lot of Kris Kristofferson, but with that there was AC/DC, Metallica, Springsteen and lately a lot of the Foo Fighter stuff. So it's kind of taking all those influences and infusing them together.
" While the country music industry has opened its arms to Idols, Goudie insists that's not why he added a few hillbilly songs to the CD. "I just like the sound of those songs, especially Ain't Dead Yet, which I wrote as a tribute to where I come from and for my buddies who have gone away. "I lot of people are saying, 'Well it don't really fit on the album,' but I don't really care.
I want it on there because I like it and I wrote it." Goudie's debut record Under the Lights won him two Juno nods for artist and album of the year. While he's proud of that success, this time around, Goudie, 22, co-wrote the majority of the record.
"I got a chance to do more of what I wanted to do as an artist." Goudie also had a lot more to say when it came to picking the tunes he didn't pen. His first single You Got To Me was written by couple Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk.
"I was always a big Our Lady Peace fan, so to get to record a song written by Raine Maida, who is one of the most successful songwriters in Canada, was a great boost." Goudie is still going strong with Canadian Idol winner and Calgarian Melissa O'Neil..
"I'm kind of missing her right now. She's gone to Germany and Belgium and Egypt -- singing for the troops. I thought that was pretty cool.
" Goudie says they plan to see each other before returning to their separate homes for Christmas. He'll then perform on a Carnival cruise in the Caribbean, before starting a national tour. Oddly, one of the places he can't wait to play is Alberta's oil-rich Fort McMurray.
"I was just there and I slept for like 45 minutes because I ran into four or five fellows I graduated with. "We were up until six in the morning talking," says Goudie, adding his life would be very different if not for Canadian Idol. "I would have either been in Fort McMurray or driving trucks somewhere.
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