Just to give my imput on the EPI anything watch out for the chinese Epiphone guitars as the quality just is not there and the support you would get from Gibson is not that great for Epi's. long story short been there done that any hollow body for blues that I am aware of from Epiphone is currently Chinese and aat that point I would say go PRS/Gretsch/ not gonna break you, and you'll get the Blues sound. If nothing else reasearch, research research