“You should be playing stadiums!”. Ian laughs while hearing this after another blazing performance at the 2024 SXSW music festival.
Is he laughing because he has played his fair share already, from shows with some of the most influential musicians of all time, from the Rolling Stones to Bob Dylan
Ian is a triple threat and an artist’s artist. He came up in Austin, mentored by the greats. Stevie Ray Vaughan famously gave him his first guitar, and you can hear the lineage in his fingers,
Spin magazine described him as a cross between Aaron Neville and Jimi Hendrix, and that duality sets him apart from so many other guitarists.
