There’s a reason why George Van Eps played guitar on Frank Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin’ Lovers, Close to You and A Swingin’ Affair. Van Eps was one of Hollywood’s leading first-call studio players and the father of the seven-string guitar (standard guitars have six; Van Eps added a seventh, a bass string, that allowed him to acco…
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