What is your take on guitar solos in cajun music, acoustic or otherwise?

As a dancer, I find it hard to ascertain the beat as well from a guitar, or even a fiddle solo. Particularly if other instruments drop back to let the guitar be heard.

And I know guitar is usually a rhythm instrument in cajun music.

Just wondering how others handle it. I am of the opinion, mistaken or not, that all other instruments should be focusing on the beat when someone is soloing.

Fiddles can accentuate the beat with bowing technique, but I feel they still need some help.

I feel it makes the difference between "dance music" and "listening music".

David Doucet does a great job on his guitar in Beausoleil. He's a hell of a flatpicker.
If you can dance on a fiddletune, you can dance on everything ?
I only know the basic dance-things(I'm a woodenshoechampion ) , but I can hear the beat also in only a cajun-fiddle.
It's remarkable that many dancers don't dance when there's only fiddles playing in Cajun-music.

Sam Broussard in Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys.
...now he can do it ! VERY VERY well.

BTW..when we were in Nashville at the Grand ol Opry a couple of years ago The Infamous Stringdusters were playing...fantastic bluegrass....and their young, flat-pickin' guitarist was a joy to watch and hear....you could search them out on Youtube.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. Sam can play that thing for sure! I have seen the boys play live many times and they never cease to amaze me, not to mention make me exhausted,

I agree that all yu have to do is see Steve Riley or pop in a CD and you hear what an accomplished guitarist can do in Cajun music. Sam really kicks it for sure. I have heard from guitar players that you have arrived when you can take a lead in a waltz. Also, Wayne Toups uses lots of guitar in his music and he does play lots of stuff with a twostep dance groove. He killed at Jazzfest this year.