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Traveling Wilburys were a British-American supergroup active from 1988 to 1991 consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. They were a roots rock band and described as "perhaps the biggest supergroup of all time".[2]
Originating from an idea discussed by Harrison and Lynne during the sessions for Harrison's 1987 album Cloud Nine, the band formed in April 1988 after the five members united to record a bonus track for Harrison's next European single. When this collaboration, "Handle with Care", was deemed too good for such a limited release, the group agreed to record a full album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. Following Orbison's death in December 1988, the Wilburys continued as a quartet and released a second album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, in 1990.
The record's release was much anticipated because of the stature of the participants. The band members adopted tongue-in-cheek pseudonyms as half-brothers from the fictional Wilbury family of travelling musicians. Vol. 1 was a critical and commercial success, helping to revitalise Dylan's and Petty's careers. In 1990, the album won the
Although Harrison envisioned a series of Wilburys albums and a film about the band, to be produced through his company HandMade, the group became dormant after 1991 and never officially reunited, though the individual members continued to collaborate on each other's solo projects at various times. After being unavailable for several years, the two Wilburys albums were reissued by the Harrison estate in the 2007 box set The Traveling Wilburys Collection. The box set included a DVD containing their music videos and a documentary on the band's formation.
History
Background
None of this would've happened without him. It was George's band – it was always George's band and it was a dream he had for a long time.[3]
During his Rockline interview, Harrison voiced his support for Dylan,[13] at a time when Dylan was experiencing an artistic and commercial low point in his career.[14] Harrison and Lynne became friends with Tom Petty in October 1987, when Petty and his band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, toured Europe as Dylan's backing group on the Temples in Flames Tour.[15][16] The friendship continued in Los Angeles later that year.[17] There, Harrison struck up a musical rapport with Petty based on their shared love of 1950s rock 'n' roll,[18] and Lynne began collaborating with Petty on what became Petty's debut solo album, Full Moon Fever, and writing songs with Orbison, Lynne's longtime musical hero,[19] for Orbison's comeback album, Mystery Girl.[20][21] According to Petty, Harrison's dream for the Wilburys was to handpick the participants and create "the perfect little band", but the criteria for inclusion were governed most by "who you could hang out with".[22] The five musicians also bonded over a shared appreciation of the English comedy troupe Monty Python.[23] Harrison, who had worked with the members of Monty Python on various productions by his company HandMade Films since the late 1970s, particularly appreciated Orbison's gift for impersonation and his ability to recite entire sketches by the troupe.[24][25]
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Otis Wilbury (Lynne)
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Lefty Wilbury (Orbison)
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Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. (Petty)
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Lucky Wilbury (Dylan)
1988–1991
"Handle with Care" and band formation
The band came together in April 1988,
Working on a song that Harrison had recently started writing, the ensemble completed the track, which they titled "Handle with Care" after a label on a box in Dylan's garage.[7] When Harrison presented the recording to Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker of Warner Bros., the executives insisted that the song was too good to be used as a B-side.[31][32] In Petty's recollection, Harrison and Lynne then decided to realise their idea of forming a Wilburys band, and first invited him to join before phoning Dylan, who also agreed to join.[33] That night, Harrison, Lynne and Petty drove to Anaheim to see Orbison perform at the Celebrity Theatre and recruited him for the group shortly before he went on stage. In Petty's description, Orbison performed an "unbelievable show", during which "we'd punch each other and go, 'He's in our band, too.' ... We were all so excited."[33]
Debut album
From my point of view, I just tried to preserve our relationship. I worked so hard to make sure that all the guys who were in that band, and consequently on record and film, that their friendship wasn't abused. Just to preserve our friendship – that was the underlying contribution, I think, that I was trying to do.[34]
The band members decided to create a full album together, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. Video footage of the creative process was later edited by Harrison into a promotional film for Warner Bros. staff, titled Whatever Wilbury Wilbury.[26][35] The album was recorded primarily over a ten-day period in May 1988,[36] to allow for Dylan's limited availability as he prepared for the start of what became known as his Never Ending Tour[37][38] and for Orbison's tour schedule.[39] These sessions were held in the house of Eurythmics member Dave Stewart, in Los Angeles.[40]
The five band members sat in a circle playing acoustic guitars in Stewart's kitchen;
The album was released on 18 October 1988.[56] Distributed by Warner Bros., it appeared on the new Wilbury record label rather than on Harrison's Dark Horse label, in the interests of maintaining the group identity.[50] Over the months following the end of recording in the summer, contractual issues had been successfully negotiated between Warner and the record companies representing Dylan, Petty, Lynne and Orbison. As was the case in 1971 when EMI prepared Harrison's multi-artist live album from the Concert for Bangladesh for release, Dylan's label, Columbia, presented the main stumbling block.[26][nb 4] In the album credits, the "Wilburys" joke was extended further, with the band members listed under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury Sr.[57][58] During promotion for the album, Orbison played along with the mock history, saying: "Some people say Daddy was a cad and a bounder, but I remember him as a Baptist minister."[59][36]
Vol. 1 was a critical and commercial success, and revitalised the careers of Dylan, Orbison and Petty.
Orbison's death, "Nobody's Child" and Vol. 3
Roy Orbison died of a heart attack on 6 December 1988.[64] In tribute to him, the music video for the band's second single, "End of the Line", shows a black-and-white framed photo of Orbison, and his guitar is shown, rocking in a chair, whenever his vocals are heard.[65] Lynne recalled that Orbison's death in the wake of Vol. 1's success was "the most sickening thing to me". He added: "I was devastated for ages ... Me and Roy had had plans to do much more together, and his voice was in really good shape. It was just so sad for that to happen."[66] Although there was speculation in the press that Del Shannon or Roger McGuinn might join the Wilburys, the remaining members never considered replacing Orbison.[48][67][nb 6] Lynne later said: "We'd become this unit, we were all good pals … We always knew we were going to do another one, and now it's just the four of us."[67]
Harrison was the most active in promoting the Wilburys, carrying out interviews well into 1989.[36] He said he was "wait[ing] for all the other Wilburys to finish being solo artists" so that they could renew the collaboration.[68] By contrast, according to author Clinton Heylin, Dylan appeared to give the band little attention as he focused on re-establishing himself as a live performer before recording his 1989 album Oh Mercy.[69][nb 7]
In March 1990, Harrison, Lynne, Petty and Dylan reunited to work on a second Wilburys album, which they intentionally misnumbered
Vol. 3 was released on 29 October 1990.[76] It was dedicated to Orbison, as "Lefty Wilbury", the pseudonym that Orbison had used in 1988 in honour of his hero Lefty Frizzell.[77] The album met with less success than the previous one. According to Mo Ostin, the choice of album title came about through "George being George";[11] apparently Harrison was making a wry reference to the appearance of a bootleg that served as a sort of Volume 2.[78] The album's liner notes were written by Eric Idle, another Python member, who again adopted a pseudonym. For the band's final single, "Wilbury Twist", they filmed a video in which Idle, John Candy and other comedic actors attempt to master the song's eponymous dance style. The clip was filmed in Los Angeles and completed on 28 February 1991.[79][nb 8]
After the Wilburys
According to Jim Keltner, the decision on the group's future after Vol. 3 lay with Harrison. Keltner said that from his conversations with Lynne, Petty and Dylan, they were all keen to reunite, whereas Harrison wavered in his enthusiasm.[81]
After his 1991 tour of Japan – his first series of concerts since 1974 – Harrison spoke of a possible Traveling Wilburys tour:
That would be something I'd like to experience. I've always played around in my own mind what a Wilburys tour could be. Would each person do a solo set and then do Wilburys at the end, or would we all go right on from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys? It's an intriguing thought. We could have a great band up there and the four of us could play acoustic if we wanted to. We could all sing "Blowin' in the Wind" and Bob could sing "Something". Or we could just sing our individual songs and make them Wilbury tunes, as if we'd recorded them that way. Whatever it was, we could do it.
The Wilburys tour never came about. Petty said about the Wilburys touring:
I think it would work, if we wanted to do it. I don't think we ever considered it, really. There were a lot of nights when the conversation would roll around to that. But I don't think anybody ever took it seriously. I think it would ruin it in a way. Then you're obligated to be responsible and it's not in the character of that group. It would make it very formal and that would be the wrong spirit.
Legacy and influence
One of the most amazing things ever about the Wilburys was this poles-apart thing of Roy [Orbison] and Bob Dylan. That's what I thought was wonderful – the best singer and the best lyricist, and they're both in the same group.[82]
In the
Harrison said the project was an opportunity to "put a finger up to the rules" by challenging the norms associated with the music industry.[23] Discussing the Wilburys in Peter Bogdanovich's 2007 documentary Runnin' Down a Dream, Petty said that one of the strengths behind the concept was that it was free of any intervention from record company, management or marketing concerns, and instead developed naturally from a spirit of co-operation and mutual admiration among five established artists.[43] Author Simon Leng recognises the venture as primarily a channel through which Harrison and Dylan could escape the restrictions of their serious media images, but also, in its guise as a "phantom band", a development by Harrison of the Rutles' satirical approach to the Beatles' legacy, in this case by "de-mythologizing" rock history.[85]
Inspired by the Traveling Wilburys' success and particularly its benefit to Petty and Orbison as artists, Lenny Waronker encouraged American guitarist Ry Cooder to form the band Little Village and record for Warner Bros.[86] The group – comprising Cooder, Keltner, John Hiatt and Nick Lowe – released a self-titled album in 1992.[87] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune described the Notting Hillbillies' Missing ... Presumed Having a Good Time as a Traveling Wilburys-type side project for Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits.[88] Writing in New York magazine in late 1990, Elizabeth Wurtzel cited the Notting Hillbillies' album and the self-titled debut by Hindu Love Gods – a band consisting of Warren Zevon and members of R.E.M. – as examples of a trend whereby, following the Wilburys' Vol. 1, "more and more albums seem to be the rock-and-roll equivalents of bowling night."[89]
Writing in
Catalogue reissue and Genesis Publications book
The whole experience was some of the best days of my life, really, and I think it probably was for us all ... The thing I guess would be hardest for people to understand is what good friends we were. It really had very little to do with combining a bunch of famous people. It was a bunch of friends that just happened to be really good at making music.[93]
– Tom Petty in The True History of the Traveling Wilburys
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the two Traveling Wilburys albums had limited availability and were
The release debuted at number 1 in the UK[94] and topped the albums chart in Australia,[95] Ireland[96] and other countries.[97] On the US Billboard 200 it reached number 9. The collection sold 500,000 copies worldwide during the first three weeks and remained in the UK top 5 for seven weeks after its release.
In November 2009,
Line-ups
Musicians
- Volume 1
- "Nelson Wilbury" – George Harrison
- "Otis Wilbury" – Jeff Lynne
- "Lefty Wilbury" – Roy Orbison
- "Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr." – Tom Petty
- "Lucky Wilbury" – Bob Dylan
- Volume 3
- "Spike Wilbury" – George Harrison
- "Clayton Wilbury" – Jeff Lynne
- "Muddy Wilbury" – Tom Petty
- "Boo Wilbury" – Bob Dylan
Jim Keltner, the session drummer and percussionist, was not officially listed as a Wilbury on either album, but was given the nickname "Buster Sidebury". Overdubs on the 2007 bonus tracks "Maxine" and "Like a Ship" were credited to "Ayrton Wilbury", a pseudonym for Dhani Harrison. The name Ayrton was used in honour of F1 driver Ayrton Senna.[103] Jim Horn and Ray Cooper played saxophones and percussion, respectively, on both albums. The lead guitar part on the Vol. 3 track "She's My Baby" was played by rock guitarist Gary Moore, who received the credit "Ken Wilbury".[104]
Further Wilbury appellation
Harrison appeared as Nelson Wilbury on
Discography
Studio albums
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | sales threshold )
| ||||||||
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AUS [105] |
AUT [106] |
CAN [107] |
NOR [108] |
NZ [109] |
SWE [110] |
SWI [111] |
UK [112] |
US [113] | |||
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 3 | ||
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 |
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14 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 19 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 11 |
Box sets
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | sales threshold )
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AUS [105] |
AUT [106] |
NOR [108] |
NZ [109] |
SWE [110] |
SWI [111] |
UK [112] |
US [113] | |||
The Traveling Wilburys Collection |
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1 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 45 | 1 | 9 |
Singles
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||
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AUS [105][123] |
CAN [124] |
IRE [125] |
NZ [109] |
UK
[112] |
US [126] |
US Main [127] |
US AC [128] | ||||
1988 | "Handle with Care" | 3 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 21 | 45 | 2 | 30 | Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 | |
1989 | "End of the Line" | 12 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 52 | 63 | 2 | 28 |
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"Heading for the Light" | 88 | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | — | |||
1990 | "Nobody's Child" | 66 | — | — | 9 | 44 | — | — | — | Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal | |
"She's My Baby" | 58 | 30 | — | — | 79 | — | 2 | — | Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 | ||
"Inside Out" | 117 | 50 | — | — | — | — | 16 | — | |||
1991 | "Wilbury Twist" | 137 | 86 | — | — | — | — | 46 | — | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart |
Other charted songs
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album |
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US Main[127] | |||
1988 | "Last Night" | 5 | Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 |
1989 | "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" | 41 |
Other collaborations between members
Year | Project | Artist | Collaborators |
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1970 | "I'd Have You Anytime" | George Harrison | Harrison, Dylan (as co-writers) |
1971 | The Concert for Bangladesh | George Harrison & Friends | Harrison, Dylan |
1985 | Porky's Revenge! soundtrack | Various (George Harrison) | Harrison debuts Dylan's song "I Don't Want to Do It" |
1986 | "Band of the Hand" | Bob Dylan with the Heartbreakers | Dylan, Petty |
Knocked Out Loaded | Bob Dylan | Dylan, Petty | |
Shanghai Surprise soundtrack | George Harrison | Harrison, Lynne | |
1987 | "Jammin' Me" | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Petty, Dylan (as co-writers) |
Cloud Nine | George Harrison | Harrison, Lynne | |
Duane Eddy | Duane Eddy | Lynne, Harrison | |
1988 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Various | Dylan, Harrison |
Land of Dreams | Randy Newman | Lynne, Petty | |
1989 | Mystery Girl | Roy Orbison | Orbison, Lynne, Petty, Harrison |
Full Moon Fever | Tom Petty | Petty, Lynne, Harrison, Orbison | |
"Cheer Down" | George Harrison | Harrison, Lynne, Petty (as co-writer) | |
1990 | Work It Out | Jim Horn | Harrison, Lynne, Petty |
Hell to Pay | Jeff Healey Band
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Harrison, Lynne | |
Armchair Theatre | Jeff Lynne | Lynne, Harrison, Petty (as co-writer) | |
Under the Red Sky | Bob Dylan | Dylan, Harrison | |
A Tribute to John Lennon | Various (Ringo Starr) | Lynne, Petty | |
1991 | Back from Rio | Roger McGuinn | Petty, Lynne (as co-writers) |
Into the Great Wide Open | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Petty, Lynne | |
Rock On! | Del Shannon | Lynne, Petty[129] | |
"Hot Love" | Del Shannon | Petty, Lynne, Harrison[130] | |
1992 | The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration | Various | Dylan, Harrison, Petty |
"Christmas All Over Again" | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Petty, Lynne | |
King of Hearts | Roy Orbison | Orbison, Lynne | |
1995 | "Free as a Bird" | The Beatles | Harrison, Lynne |
1996 | " Real Love "
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2001 | Zoom | Electric Light Orchestra | Lynne, Harrison |
2002 | Brainwashed | George Harrison | Harrison, Lynne |
Concert for George | Various | Lynne, Petty | |
2006 | Highway Companion | Tom Petty | Petty, Lynne |
2023 | "Now and Then" | The Beatles | Harrison, Lynne |
Notes
- ^ Harrison also stated his intention to form such a band in March 1988, in response to a suggestion from television show host Michael Aspel that he should "get a bunch of oldies together".[7]
- Prince's Trust Concert in June 1987.[12]
- ^ In music journalist Neil Staunton's description, "Harrison is acknowledged as the de facto chief Wilbury",[49] while Lynne biographer John Van der Kiste describes the Wilburys as "in effect George's group".[50] In a 2009 interview for Mojo, in response to Mat Snow's question "In a band of bandleaders, who was the alpha Wilbury?",[51] Petty said: "Definitely George. It was his idea, his vision … Yeah, he'd only ever been in one band [the Beatles]. But he was the best bandleader I ever saw. He was really good at organising things, at knowing who was best at what, delegating what to do. He had a great passion for a band."[47] Petty also recalled a subsequent discussion with Dylan when the pair were marvelling at the impact the Wilburys made and Dylan said: "Well, George is really smart. He was in the Beatles, you know."[43]
- ^ One of the record company executives reluctantly agreed, conceding that he did not want to be the person blocking the Wilburys venture and "standing in the way of history being made".[36]
- ^ Carl Perkins, Robbie Robertson and Gene Pitney were among the other musicians rumoured to be the new fifth Wilbury.[65]
- ^ When commenting on Dylan's absence from promoting Vol. 1, Harrison said: "He has no qualms about taking 20% of the royalties but he doesn't do [the] interviews."[70]
- ^ For its inclusion in the 2007 box set The Traveling Wilburys Collection, the video was re-edited to favour footage of the group miming to the song, with only minimal footage of the guest actors.[80]
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- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2007 Albums". ARIA Charts. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ "RIAA – Gold & Platinum – March 4, 2011: The Traveling Wilburys Collection certified awards". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Other peaks in Australia:
- "Inside Out": "Bubbling Down Under: Week commencing 11 February 1991". Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- "Wilbury Twist": "Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 15 April 1991". Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ "Results – RPM – Library and Archives Canada – Top Singles". RPM. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie.
- ^ "The Traveling Wilburys Album & Song Chart History – Hot 100". billboard.com. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ a b "The Traveling Wilburys – Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 3 July 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ^ "The Traveling Wilburys Album & Song Chart History – Adult Contemporary". billboard.com. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ "Del Shannon Biography". delshannon.com. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ "Del Shannon – Hot Love". jefflynnesongs.com. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
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External links
- Official website
- Traveling Wilburys' YouTube channel
- Official book microsite (with Wilburys photos, lyric sheets and quotes)
- Traveling Wilburys
- Entry at VH1.com Archived 16 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Traveling Wilburys discography at Discogs