# The Storm guitar solo > Stuart Adamson's guitar solo on The Storm by Big Country (1983) starts at about 4:00. From the album The Crossing. A new wave classic from the 1980s. Canonical URL: Big Country, 1983, from *The Crossing*. Solo by *Stuart Adamson*. A six-minute slow build where e-bowed guitars swell like wind over moorland. The climactic lead passages show how atmospheric the band could be. The Storm by Big Country is #4 in our ranking of the best Big Country guitar solos. The solo is played by Stuart Adamson and the song was released in 1983. ## In our lists - [The Best Big Country Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/big-country-guitar-solos/) — #4 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on The Storm? Stuart Adamson played the solo on Big Country's The Storm (1983). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)