| Johnny Goudie | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 14, 1968 |
| Origin | Austin, Texas |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupations | Singer-Songwriter-Guitarist-Pianist-Producer-actor |
| Instruments | vocals guitar piano drums bass maracas melodica omnichord marimba |
| Labels | Elektra/Asylum The Music Company F+M Strangelove India Surefire |
| Associated acts | Panjadrum Lovetree I Love Elke Mr. Rocket Baby Jez Spencer Goudie Lars Ulrich God Drives a Galaxy Ennui the Fawn Lowery 66 Endochine Eliza Gilkyson Pale Sparkwood Jeff Klein Canvas Darin Murphy Trish Murphy Deadbeat Darling Joseph King The Borrowers KTel Hit Machine SKYROCKET! Ian Moore Band Johnny Goudie and the Little Champions Ainjel Emme Rachel Loy Alejandro Escovedo Kathy Valentine & The Impossible Taylor Davis Shwa Losben Spencer Gibb 54 Seconds Patty Griffin Vallejo Sunshine Soulhat Sheridan Roalson |
John Charles "Johnny" Goudie (born October 14, 1968 in Miami, Florida, U.S.) is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, record producer, actor, and podcaster based in Austin, Texas. Goudie is fluent in Spanish and English, but primarily sings in English.
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Raised in the Miami, Florida area, Goudie comes from a family of Cuban medical doctors. At age 13 after attending a Cheap Trick concert, Goudie started his first band, which he called ZEPHYR, and decided to pursue a career in music.[1][2] His family was supportive (his father had also been a singer in a band).[2] On October 13, 1985, when Johnny was 16, his mother, Natalie Antonetti, was beaten over the head in her apartment. She died 18 days later. The crime went unsolved for 23 years until a tip led police to arrest Antonetti's ex-boyfriend Dennis Davis.[3] On April 15, 2011 Davis was convicted of the murder.[4][5] The traumatic loss of his mother had a profound influence on Goudie's subsequent songwriting.
In the mid 1980s while living in The Woodlands area outside Houston, Texas Johnny started a funk–soul band called Panjadrum.[6] Shortly after recording a 4-track EP entitled Chuck, Panjadrum broke up in 1990, and Goudie formed another band called Lovetree as well as pursuing a side career as a solo artist.[6] In 1992 Lovetree recorded an EP entitled Sorry About the Drum Machine. Lovetree's sound was influenced by rock, funk and Latin music.
By 1993 Goudie had left Lovetree and moved to Austin, Texas where he fronted the rock band Mr. Rocket Baby, which included former members of Panjandrum and Lovetree.[6] The band's philosophy was to play 70s-influenced rock music while dressing and acting like they were from the 70s. Mr. Rocket Baby's first shows were opening for Davíd Garza and Bob Schneider before crowds of hundreds, and they became an instant hit in Austin. The band secured a management deal within two weeks of their first concert and began touring the country. In 1993 Mr. Rocket Baby was voted best pop band in the Austin Chronicle's readers poll. Mr. Rocket Baby released one album, Make Believe, before parting ways.
On April 10, 1994 Johnny married Traci Campbell in Austin. The couple were married for ten years. Goudie's divorce was the subject of many of the songs on his 2005 album Boy in a Box.
Over the next few years Johnny toured as a power trio with bassist Einar Pedersen and a drummer Kyle Schneider. The trio independently recorded an album Fantastic in 1996. In 1997 Johnny played on the album 4-Track Mind with the band Jez Spencer,[7] an early incarnation of Spencer Gibb's band which would become 54 Seconds. He also co-wrote the song "Stuck in a Hole", which ended up on Darin Murphy's 1998 album Solitarium[8] as well as co-writing with Mark Addison the song "Sun Earth Moon" which appeared on The Borrowers second album Overcoming Gravity and was also featured in a commercial for The Cleveland Planetarium. In late 1997 Goudie was again working on his own material and decided to put a new band together.
In the Spring of 1998 Johnny's new band played the South by Southwest festival in Austin, and happened to catch the attention of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who was looking to sign bands to his new record label The Music Company, a subsidiary of Elektra Records. Johnny's band was the second band signed to the label.
The band had a major label contract, but still did not have a name. They decided to simply call themselves Goudie. In July 2000 Goudie released their first album, Peep Show, to critical acclaim. The band set out on a year-long tour supporting the album, touring with such acts as Blur, Veruca Salt, Agent Orange, Supergrass, Alejandro Escovedo, Davíd Garza, Julianna Hatfield, and Unified Theory.
In June 2001 the band left Elektra and joined forces with friends at independent Austin label India Records, which released the band’s critically acclaimed second album ...Effects of Madness in March 2002. However later that year, the band split up.
After the breakup of his band, Goudie returned to his biggest passion: writing and recording songs in his home studio. He independently released an album of self-recorded demos entitled 18 Unreleased Home Demos 1996-2001 as well as a Christmas album Johnny Says Ho which was released only to his fan club. The popularity of these releases led to a series of other demo collections entitled Return of the Handlebar, I Think I'm a Genius, Helloprah! and The Loyalist; the latter of which consisted entirely of covers. He appeared on Eliza Gilkyson's 2002 album Lost and Found as well as Jeff Klein's 2003 album Everybody Loves a Winner and played guitar and keyboard in Jeff Klein's live band. During this time, he continued to perform in several other bands, including God Drives a Galaxy, Lowery 66 and Ennui the Fawn. He continued to write his own material and in the summer of 2003 he released a solo album entitled I Love Elke on Strangelove Records, a label dedicated to artists making records on their own terms. Johnny supported I Love Elke with a tour with God Drives a Galaxy and Einar Pedersen as his backing band. Johnny also found the time to co-write the song "Intertwined" which appeared on Canvas's 2004 album Four Days Awake. He joined the popular Austin band Endochine for their Day Two tour and was voted best keyboard player in the 2004 Austin Chronicle music awards.
Goudie also took to the role of record producer, producing albums for scores of local bands and musicians. In 2004 Johnny produced Canvas's third album Painting The Roses. On the subsequent tour for Painting the Roses, Johnny played as opening act with Canvas as his backing band, and then played keyboard with Canvas during their headlining set. Goudie also played several acoustic shows with Canvas frontman Joseph King and was briefly a member of King's post-Canvas band which became Deadbeat Darling.
Later in 2004 Johnny played on Pale's album Here in addition to completing his second solo album Boy in a Box, which was the debut release of F+M Records. The album again won him critical praise and is regarded as his strongest work to date. The tracks "Back of a Magazine" and "Everyone Remembers (When You're Cool)" from Boy in a Box also found their way onto the soundtrack of the 2006 short film Surf Gang. 2006 also saw the release of Johnny's acoustic album All You Can't Undo, which he supported with a cross country unplugged solo tour. In 2007 Johnny joined long-time friend Ian Moore's band on a nation-wide tour, playing guitar and keyboard. Johnny also plays in the 70s-80s cover band SKYROCKET! which he formed with Trish Murphy, Darin Murphy, Paul English, Benjamin Hotchkiss, Kyle Crusham, and Mike Belile. SKYROCKET! was voted best cover band in the 2006 Austin Chronicle Music Awards and also won the Critic's Choice Award. In addition to being a member of The Ian Moore Band and SKYROCKET!, Johnny still plays live shows as a solo artist, and has assembled a super group, Johnny Goudie and the Little Champions, which includes Brad Byrum and Scott Thomas of Canvas and Ryan Holley of (a+)machines and Plow Monday. The band released their debut album El Payaso on February 3, 2009. The Little Champions experienced several lineup changes depending on which musicians were available for shows and tours - including an all-female lineup which was dubbed "The Lady Champions."
In 2010 Johnny joined a new band called Liars & Saints along with singer/songwriters Kacy Crowley and Jeremy Nail. In May/June 2011 Liars & Saints recorded an EP and released it in August 2011.
In 2011 Johnny started broadcasting a podcast entitled "How Did I Get Here" in which he interviews fellow musicians and entertainers. The podcast gained instantaneous popularity within the Austin music scene.
| Year | Group | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Panjadrum | Chuck EP | |
| 1992 | Lovetree | Sorry About The Drum Machine EP | |
| 1994 | Mr. Rocket Baby | Make Believe | Crystal Clear |
| 1994 | Mr. Rocket Baby | Homegroan Volume 1 | KROX |
| 1994 | Mr. Rocket Baby | Local Licks Live '94 | KLBJ |
| 1994 | Mr. Rocket Baby | Tales from the Edge Volume Nine & Ten | KDGE |
| 1996 | Johnny Goudie Trio | Fantastic | |
| 2004 | Johnny Goudie | I Think I'm a Genius | |
| 2004 | Johnny Goudie | The Loyalist | |
| 2004 | Johnny Goudie | Helloprah | |
| 1997 | Johnny Goudie Trio | Rotating Parts: A Propeller Collection | Propeller Records |
| 1997 | Jez Spencer | 4-Track Mind | |
| 1998 | Johnny Goudie Trio | Do Me Baby! - Austin Does Prince | |
| 2000 | Goudie | Peep Show | TMC/Elektra |
| 2000 | Goudie | ASCAP's EAR Volume 3 | ASCAP |
| 2001 | Johnny Goudie | Johnny Says Ho | |
| 2002 | Goudie | Effects of Madness | India |
| 2002 | Johnny Goudie | 18 Unreleased Home Demos 1996-2001 | |
| 2003 | Johnny Goudie | I Love Elke | Strangelove |
| 2003 | Canvas | Four Days Awake | Desert Tide |
| 2003 | Daniel Kang | I Wish I could See You | |
| 2002 | Eliza Gilkyson | Lost and Found | Red House Records |
| 2003 | Jeff Klein | Everybody Loves a Winner | |
| 2004 | God Drives a Galaxy | Pale Blue Dot | |
| 2004 | Colin Gilmore | The Day the World Stopped | |
| 2004 | Pale | Here | |
| 2005 | Johnny Goudie | Boy in a Box | F+M |
| 2006 | Saturday's Radar | Kill All the Dj's | National Records |
| 2006 | Johnny Goudie | All You Can't Undo | |
| 2006 | Johnny Goudie | Surf Gang Soundtrack | |
| 2008 | Johnny Goudie and the Little Champions | Seachange Compilation | Seachange Records |
| 2008 | Johnny Goudie and the Little Champions | Battle Scar Maxi Single | Seachange Records |
| 2009 | Johnny Goudie and the Little Champions | El Payaso | Seachange Records |
| 2011 | Liars & Saints | Liars & Saints EP |
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | A Slipping-Down Life | Jesse |
| 2007 | A Very Bad Day | Officer Shumanski |
| year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Going to California | Band Member (with Jerry O'Connell) | Episode: "Searching For Eddie Van Halen" |