Best Songs Featuring a Fender Stratocaster

The Fender Stratocaster is one of the most popular guitars in history. Unsurprisingly, this list could get out of hand really quick. After all, it would be easy to pick ten Jimi Hendrix songs or ten Stevie Ray Vaughan songs or ten Eric Clapton songs. I am gonna do my best to diversify the list and keep things interesting. The Stratocaster must be the main guitar on the record, and it doesn't matter if we're talking rhythm or lead guitar.
The Top Ten
1 Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
2 Layla - Derek & the Dominos
3 Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
4 Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
5 Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Life is full of tough choices to make. The items on this list only make life harder. I keep switching favourites! When it came right down to it, it was a choice between this and Voodoo Child (Slight Return), so I did what I always do in situations like this - I flipped a coin (I really did! ) Texas Flood won :).

6 Day of the Eagle - Robin Trower
7 Walk on Hot Coals - Rory Gallagher
8 Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
9 Little Wing - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
10 Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers

As any RHCP fan knows, John Frusciante frequently uses vintage Fenders, especially the Stratocaster. John's main guitar for the BSSM recording sessions was a 1959 Sunburst Stratocaster. Unfortunately, this guitar was lost along with the rest of his guitar collection when his house burned down in 1996.

The Contenders
11 Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
12 You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
13 Flying High - The Arcana
14 Time is on the River - The Arcana
15 Highway Star - Deep Purple
16 Misirlou - Dick Dale

One of surf rock's best instrumentals was played on a left handed Strat with the strings upside down.

17 Apache - The Shadows

If it wasn't for Hank Marvin and this song, most British guitarists wouldn't have picked up the Stratocaster.

18 Let's Dance - David Bowie

Featuring two Strat players! Nile Rodgers (on rhythm) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (on lead).

19 Nowhere Man - The Beatles

Although John Lennon and George Harrison are more commonly associated with Gretsch and Rickenbacker guitars, the lead guitar parts for Nowhere Man were played by John and George on two identical Stratocasters, one doubling the other.

20 La Bamba - Ritchie Valens

Ritchie Valens is commonly known for playing a Fender Stratocaster.

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