Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens dazzles fans every night with a nylon-string guitar solo that ever-so-slightly teases bits of Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway to Heaven” and Van Halen‘s ...

Page begins his solo on a 12-string acoustic guitar and keeps things slow and mellifluous, the pastoral lilt of his playing fitting in perfectly with Robert Plant's smooth vocals.

When I recently saw the singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker of the band Big Thief perform to a sold-out crowd of 1,200 people in London, her acoustic guitar solo was an emotional high point.

"I'm going on a solo arena tour," the singer-songwriter, 45, wrote on Instagram. "I began my career on stage with only a guitar and a microphone. A lot has changed since then, but I knew one day I ...

"Oddly enough, the way that I ended up doing a nylon [string] guitar solo was that I was in Vince Neil's band, and we did about six weeks opening for Van Halen [in 1993]," Stevens recently told UCR.