Watch Gogol Bordello take on Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in latest A.V. Undercover

While perusing the song list for season 10, lead singer Eugene Hütz says he looked for something “challenging.” And Orbison was “iconic in his own right as a great American original and masterful songwriter that is beyond masterful.” As the band warmed up, Hütz noted the widespread influence of Orbison’s structurally complex ballad about lost love, which found new life on the big screen: “It is also visually iconic as seen from Blue Velvet, which is pretty immortal work of David Lynch.” Joined by Erica Mancini and longtime bandmate Sergey Ryabtsev, Hütz admitted the song isn’t quite in his vocal range, but he took inspiration from Shane MacGowan and Nick Cave’s rendition of “What A Wonderful World”: “I kind of looked at it in a similar light, that maybe we can create a number like that.”

When we last had the band on Undercover, they offered their take on Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.” Gogol Bordello released their latest studio album, We Mean It, Man!, on February 13, and will kick off the U.S. leg of their tour on February 21. Find more dates here.