Van Epp was introduced to me by my father in law. He was a audiophile in the 50's before he had kids. Got some really great karlson horns in his basement that he built. Van Epp was a solo act, and did things that sound like he had 12 fingers. I only have the one album, but it's a frequent visitor. I really don't have much info on him.

They used to bill Stevie Ray as"Stevie Hurricane"

George Van Epps

Why seven strings? "I wanted things to happen, voices to move, not just 'Oh, that's a chord, 'dunh-dunh.' I wanted something to go 'de da da duh' inside the chord or for the bass to move a little bit," Van Eps once told the Los Angeles Times. "I don't care about playing nine million notes a second. I'm more interested in having every voice in a chord be a melody that both stands by itself and works with the others."