What are your favourite songs for playing along to / improvising over?

Keiko

Just looking for ideas. Ideally on spotify and in standard pitch so I don't have to retune.

Chuffola

Down by the river - Neil Young.

Ah. No longer on Spotify…. However, Now You Shred channel on YouTube has a decent backing track of it - as well as tons of other great backing tracks. 

joeW

Giant steps - Coltrane - is a nice and friendly one 

bloodandtears

Journey.. Edge of the blade... 

Trelf1980

I just type in "guitar backing track with vocals" in YouTube and play stuff at random - good to mix it up

PhilW1

Quo— ‘ gotta go home/is it really me’ and ‘Quo live’

mrkb

Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter ( I - V - IV - I sequence)

normskinormski

Knockin on heavens door (Guns n Roses backing track) for me. It's at just the right tempo for me to play slow or fast licks and I don't need to tax my brain too much to still enjoy myself.

EricTheWeary

In my five minutes a week of guitar playing it’s been I Got Loaded by Lil Bob and the Lollipops. The groove on that guitar riff, making a horrible noise over the sax solo and there are a bunch of covers where guitarists take different approaches- Tab Benoit, Los Lobos,etc.