The final season of Sons of Anarchy is off to an impressive start musically.
For the seventh season premiere, music supervisor Bob Thiele Jr. and Co. decided to end the episode with an epic cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." In advance of tomorrow's episode, Rolling Stone has premiered an exclusive cut of "Baby, Please Don't Go" done by resident SOA house band The Forest Rangers.
All of the attitude Muddy Waters originally put into his 1953 take on the blues standard is included on the new cover, but the band decided to turn up the guitars more and give it some of that signature Rangers twang.
"This one ain't rocket science," Thiele told RS about the track, which also features singer Franky Perez. Thiele went on to call the cover "a straight-up, balls-out version of the blues classic made famous by Muddy Waters."
In Thiele's mind, the song is a perfect fit for the season's fourth episode, which sounds like it will be filled with more bad news for the fictional small town of Charming, California.
"Hell descends on Charming," Thiele said, "and this underscores the mayhem and its aftermath."
The music supervisor also praised the musicians, who are constantly tasked with re-imaginng classic songs for the show.
"Here we have a new Forest Ranger, handsome Michael Urbano, playing drums," Thiele said about the new additions to the band, which also include guitarist Benji Lysaght. "[Urbano's] played on countless hit records, and I've been trying to get him into the fold for some time. The stars finally aligned, and he's joined by his old partner from Cracker, Davey Faragher, on bass. Lysaght, another new addition to The Forest Rangers, plays some torrid guitar, and Franky Perez, as usual, sings his ass off."
Sons airs Tuesdays on FX.
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