"...an excellent guitarist in the old style...I was seriously impressed with your playing."    Bruce Iglauer, CEO, Alligator Records, USA.

"...Kiwi slide guitarist extraodinaire"    Radio Hauraki, New Zealand.

"The real deal"    Terry Iredale, HotFM, Australia

"One of the best country blues guitarists we've heard in years"    GoodTime Blues Review, Argentina

Welcome to the website of Lil' Ian Goodsman - Blues and Roots Acoustic Musician. Based in Whangarei, New Zealand, but spending some time playing in the UK, Lil' Ian is a touring musician having played New Zealand, Australia, USA and the UK. Reviewed and played on various radio stations throughout Europe, Scandanavia, South America and, of course, his home continent of Australasia.

For those of you interested in keeping up to date with what I am up to, I have included a link to Newsletters from this page - see below.

Also, as you will see, there is a link to brief notes and Discographies of various guitarists that have influenced and inspired me - see to the right-hand side of this page. I will be including guitarists from a variety of genres and not just blues musicians. Once this is up and running, I hope you get to enjoy it

Hopefully you will like what is here enough to join my email list and, of course, there is always the 'Like' on Facebook at the top of the page.

I look forward to catching up with you either here or at a venue - Lil' Ian

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