Hear Meryl Streep sing 'Drift Away'

Give her the beat, boys. Meryl Streep covers the 1973 Dobie Gray smash Drift Away in her new movie, Ricki and the Flash. The track is premiering at USA TODAY.

On the film's soundtrack album, out Aug. 7, the three-time Academy Award winner is backed by a band of top-notch musicians: Rick Springfield, who plays Streep's guitarist and boyfriend; keyboardist Bernie Worrell, known for his work with the Talking Heads and Parliament-Funkadelic; drummer Joe Vitale, who has played with Crosby, Stills and Nash; and longtime Neil Young bassist Rick Rosas, who passed away after the film was shot.

The film, which also opens Aug. 7, stars Streep as a guitarist trying to piece her career back together. Ricki and the Flash was written by Juno write Diablo Cody and directed by Jonathan Demme, who won a best-director Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs.

The album's soundtrack features Streep and her band performing a wide range of rock and pop classics, from Wilbert Harrison's Let's Work Together and Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs' Wooly Bully to U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.

It also includes tracks from Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams and Streep's son Henry Wolfe.