Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

Classic rock songs like "Dust In the Wind" by Kansas and "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin have some of the best acoustic guitar intros ever.

To some fans, country music was meant to be played one way—unfiltered, unplugged, and entirely acoustic. This is a purist school of thought, and one that mainly applies to bluegrass and folk music.