Traveling Wilburys

The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were an English-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. The band recorded two albums in 1988 and 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded.
==History==
===1988–90===
George Harrison first mentioned the Traveling Wilburys during a radio interview with Bob Coburn on the Rockline radio station in February 1988. When asked what he planned to do as a follow-up for his Cloud Nine album, Harrison replied: "What I'd really like to do next is... to do an album with me and some of my mates... a few tunes, you know. Maybe the Traveling Wilburys... it's this new group I got: it's called the Traveling Wilburys, I'd like to do an album with them and later we can all do our own albums again."Interview excerpt from Bob Coburn's Rockline radio show, February 1988 "Wilbury" was a slang term first used by Harrison during the recording of Cloud Nine with Jeff Lynne. Referring to recording errors created by some faulty equipment, Harrison jokingly remarked to Lynne, "We'll bury 'em in the mix". Thereafter, they used the term for any small error in performance and the term was used again when the group were together. Harrison suggested "The Trembling Wilburys" as the group's name; instead, Lynne suggested "Traveling", with which the group agreed.
Starting with a meal among Harrison, Lynne and Roy Orbison, the group came together at Bob Dylan's home studio in Malibu, California, to record an additional track as a B-side for the single release of Harrison's "This Is Love". Tom Petty's involvement came by chance, as Harrison had left his guitar at Petty's house and Harrison went to get it and invited Petty to join the session. The record label, however, decided that the song that resulted, "Handle with Care", was too good to be released as a "single filler". The members enjoyed working together so much that they decided to create a full album together. Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. Written by all five men, it was recorded over a ten-day period in May 1988, and released on October 18. The album was recorded in the house and garden of Eurythmics member Dave Stewart.Interview with Dave Stewart confirming the site of recording on BBC Andrew Marr Show, 2011 The "Wilburys" joke was extended further, with the band members credited under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr. The album was a critical and commercial success, spawning several successful singles and eventually reaching triple-platinum sales status in the U.S. The album was nominated for several awards and won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group in 1989. Liner notes on the album cover were written by Michael Palin under a pseudonym. On the second album they were written by Eric Idle under a pseudonym.
Roy Orbison died of a heart attack on December 6, 1988. In tribute to Orbison, the music video for "End of the Line" shows Orbison's guitar rocking in a chair as the rest of the group play, followed by a brief shot focusing on a framed picture of him. Despite Orbison's death, the remaining group members recorded a second and final studio album, which they intentionally misnumbered Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3. It was released on October 30, 1990, and met with less success than the previous one. In the booklet contained in the 2007 box set, the album title is credited to "George being George"; apparently Harrison was making a wry reference to the appearance of a bootleg that served as a sort of Volume 2.Traveling Wilburys Volume 3, 2002
===Collaborations===
During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each other's solo records:
*Lynne and Petty worked fairly extensively on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl (1989). Harrison also contributed acoustic guitar to one of the album's tracks and vocals to another.
*Lynne produced and played on the Petty solo album Full Moon Fever (1989). Harrison also appeared on one track on guitar and backing vocals, and Orbison sang backing vocals on another.
*Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky (1990).
*Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre (1990).
*Lynne produced Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album Into the Great Wide Open (1991)
*Lynne and Petty co-wrote a song with Del Shannon for Shannon's album Rock On! (1991), which Lynne produced. This spawned rumors that Shannon would join the group.
*Harrison and Petty appear on Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration album (1992), and perform "My Back Pages" with Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Eric Clapton and Neil Young.
Harrison appeared as Nelson Wilbury on Warner Bros. Records' 1988 holiday promo album Winter Warnerland (which also included Paul Reubens as "Pee Wee Wilbury"). In his capacity as producer, Harrison credited himself as "Spike and Nelson Wilbury" on his 1992 live album Live in Japan. The Traveling Wilburys contributed the title track, "Nobody's Child", to the Romanian Angel Appeal benefit album Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal, released on July 24, 1990.
===After the Wilburys===
After his 1991 tour of Japan, George Harrison spoke of a Traveling Wilburys tour:
The Wilburys tour never came about. Tom Petty said about the Wilburys touring:
Lynne continued to work with Harrison occasionally, including acting as producer for the two "new" Beatles singles "Free as a Bird" (1995) and "Real Love" (1996) for The Beatles Anthology. After Harrison's death in 2001, Lynne and Dhani Harrison co-produced and finished the elder Harrison's posthumous album Brainwashed (2002). Lynne later produced Tom Petty's album Highway Companion (2006).
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the two Traveling Wilburys albums had limited availability and were out of print in most areas. Harrison, as primary holder of the rights, did not reissue them before his death. In June 2007, the two albums were reissued as The Traveling Wilburys Collection, a box set including both albums on CD (with bonus tracks) and a DVD featuring a twenty-four-minute band documentary and a collection of music videos. The box set was released in three editions; the standard edition, with both CDs and DVD in a double Digipak package and a 16-page booklet; a "deluxe" boxed edition with the CDs and DVD and an extensive 40-page booklet, artist postcards, and photographs; or a "deluxe" boxed edition on vinyl. This version omits the DVD, but adds a 12" vinyl disc with rare versions of the songs. The release debuted at #1 in the UK album charts and the Australian album charts. On the US Billboard 200 it reached #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.
==Line-ups==
;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 listed as a Wilbury on either album. However, he is seen in all of the group's music videos, and on the DVD released in 2007, he is given the nickname "Buster Sidebury". Overdubs to the bonus tracks "Maxine" and "Like a Ship" also credit "Ayrton Wilbury", a pseudonym for Dhani Harrison. The name Ayrton was used in honor of F1 racer Ayrton Senna."Ayrton Wilbury nasceu do amor à música e à Fórmula 1". Luiz Augusto Lima. Retrieved March 31, 2014. Jim Horn played saxophone on both albums. The lead guitar on the Volume 3 song "She's My Baby" was played by rock guitarist Gary Moore.Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, George Harrison.com. Retrieved March 31, 2014
==Discography==
===Studio albums===
Title 	Details	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Certifications(sales threshold)
Title 	Details	US 	AUS 	AUT 	NOR 	NZ 	SWE 	SWI 	UK 	Certifications(sales threshold)
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1	
* Release date: October 18, 1988
* Label: Wilbury Records
* Formats: CD, Vinyl, cassette	3 	1 	3 	2 	2 	2 	6 	16 	
* CAN: 6× Platinum
* UK: Silver
* US: 3× Platinum
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3	
* Release date: October 29, 1990
* Label: Wilbury Records
* Formats: CD, Vinyl, cassette	11 	14 	22 	3 	19 	5 	18 	14 	
* CAN: Platinum
* UK: Platinum
* US: Platinum
===Other albums===
Title 	Details	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Certifications(sales threshold)
Title 	Details	US 	AUS 	AUT 	NOR 	NZ 	SWE 	SWI 	UK 	Certifications(sales threshold)
Winter Warnerland (holiday promo album)	
* Release date: 1988
* Label: Warner Bros. Records
* Formats: CD, cassette, Vinyl	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal 	
* Release date: UK: July 23, 1990US: July 24, 1990
* Label: Warner Bros. Records
* Formats: CD, Vinyl	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
The Traveling Wilburys Collection 	
* Release date: June 11, 2007
* Label: Wilbury Records
* Formats: CD, Vinyl, music download	9 	1 	24 	1 	1 	2 	45 	1 	
* AUS: 2× Platinum
* UK: Platinum
* US: Gold
===Singles===
Year 	Single 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Album
Year 	Single 	US 	US Main 	US AC 	AUS 	CAN 	NZ 	UK 	Album
1988 	"Handle with Care" 	45 	2 	30 	3 	— 	4 	21 	Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
1989 	"End of the Line" 	63 	2 	28 	12 	— 	11 	52 	Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
1990 	"Nobody's Child" 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	9 	44 	Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal
1990 	"She's My Baby" 	— 	2 	— 	45 	30 	— 	79 	Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3
1991 	"Wilbury Twist" 	— 	46 	— 	— 	86 	— 	— 	Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3
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===Other charted songs===
Year 	Single 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Peak chart positions 	Album 	 	 	
Year 	Single 	US Main 	CAN 	NZ 	UK 	Album 	 	 	
1988 	"Last Night" 	5 	— 	— 	— 	Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 	 	 	
1989 	"Tweeter and the Monkey Man" 	41 	— 	— 	— 	Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 	 	 	
1989 	"Heading for the Light" 	7 	— 	— 	— 	Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 	 	 	
1990 	"Inside Out" 	16 	50 	— 	— 	Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 	 	 	
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==References==
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