THE TRAVELING WILBURYS
''THE TRAVELING WILBURYS, DISC TWO''
JUNE 12 2007
83:38
DISC ONE
1/Handle with Care/3:19
2/Dirty World/3:29
3/Rattled/2:59
4/Last Night/3:51
5/Not Alone Any More/3:24
6/Congratulations/3:29
7/Heading for the Light/3:36
8/Margarita/3:16
9/Tweeter and the Monkey Man/5:27
10/End of the Line/3:29
11/Maxine/2:49
Previously unreleased bonus track, with additional backing vocals by Jeff Lynne and Dhani Harrison and a guitar solo by Jeff Lynne added in 2007.
12/Like a Ship/3:30
Previously unreleased bonus track, with additional backing vocals by Jeff Lynne and Dhani Harrison and a guitar solo by Dhani Harrison added in 2007.
All Tracks By The Traveling Wilburys
DISC TWO
1/She's My Baby/3:15
2/Inside Out/3:35
3/If You Belonged to Me/3:13
4/The Devil's Been Busy/3:18
5/7 Deadly Sins/3:17
6/Poor House/3:16
7/Where Were You Last Night?/3:03
8/Cool Dry Place/3:37
9/New Blue Moon/3:20
10/You Took My Breath Away/3:18
11/Wilbury Twist/2:58
12/Nobody's Child
Cy Coben / Mel Foree/3:28
Bonus track, previously released on Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal.
13/Runaway
Del Shannon/2:30
Bonus track, originally released as the B-side to "She's My Baby" in the UK. Remixed, with a new clavioline solo replacing the original guitar/harmonica tracks recorded in 1990.
Tracks By The Traveling Wilburys, Except 12, 13
MEMBERS
The Traveling Wilburys of Volume 1 were:
Nelson Wilbury - George Harrison
Otis Wilbury - Jeff Lynne
Lefty Wilbury - Roy Orbison
Charlie T. Jr. - Tom Petty
Lucky Wilbury - Bob Dylan
The Traveling Wilburys of Volume 3 were:
Spike Wilbury - George Harrison
Clayton Wilbury - Jeff Lynne
Muddy Wilbury - Tom Petty
Boo Wilbury - Bob Dylan
Additional named Traveling Wilburys on the 2007 Collection were:
Buster Sidebury - Jim Keltner
Ayrton Wilbury - Dhani Harrison
Jim Keltner, the session drummer and percussionist, was not listed as a Wilbury in Volume 1 or 3; however he is in some of the music videos. In the DVD released in 2007, he is given the Wilbury nickname 'Buster Sidebury'. Furthermore, overdubs to the unreleased tracks "Maxine" and "Like A Ship" credit Ayrton Wilbury, a pseudonym for Dhani Harrison.
CREDITS
Ray Cooper / Percussion
Jim Horn / Saxophone
Jim Keltner / Percussion, Drums
Gary Moore / Guitar
Ian Wallace / Tom-Tom
Ayrton Wilbury / Guitar, Vocals (bckgr), Soloist
Boo Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Harmonica, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Clayton Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Clavoline, Mixing, Soloist
Lefty Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Lucky Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Muddy Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Nelson Wilbury / Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer
Otis Wilbury / Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Mixing, Soloist
Spike Wilbury Guitar (Acoustic), Mandolin, Guitar (Electric), Sitar, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer
HISTORY
Initially starting at a meal between Roy Orbison, George Harrison, and Jeff Lynne, they got together at Bob Dylan's studio at Santa Monica, California to record an additional track as a B-side for the single release of Harrison's "This Is Love". Tom Petty's involvement was by chance as Harrison had left his guitar at Petty's house. The song they came up with was "Handle with Care". However, the record company immediately realized it was too good to be released as a "single filler".
They enjoyed working together so much that they decided to create an album together. Written by all its members, the album was recorded over a ten-day period in May 1988 because Dylan was due to go on tour. Released on October 18, 1988 (under various pseudonyms as half-brothers, supposed sons of Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.), the album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 was in 1989 ranked #70 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. It was later nominated for a Grammy under the category Album of the Year. The death of band member Roy Orbison (on December 6, 1988) prevented further full collaborations; however, the band continued without him. The band even finished the video for "End of the Line". In the scene where the verse is sung by Orbison, the viewer is shown Orbison's guitar in a rocking chair followed by a photo of the late artist.
"Wilburys" was a slang term coined by Harrison and Lynne during the recording of Cloud Nine as a reference to recorded "flubs" that could be eliminated during the mixing stage (i.e. "'We'll bury' them in the mix"). The term was used again when the entire group was together. Harrison suggested "The Trembling Wilburys" as the group's name, but Lynne suggested using "Traveling" instead. Everyone agreed.
The Traveling Wilburys contributed the title track "Nobody's Child" to the album Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal, released on July 24, 1990. The album was a benefit for the Romanian Angel Appeal, a charity launched by Olivia Harrison, Barbara Bach, Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney to help the orphaned children of Romania.
A second album entitled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 was released on October 30, 1990. However, the album met with less success. Harrison once claimed in an MTV interview that the band had written material for a Vol. 2, but the material was stolen before completion. The "official" story (that is, from the perspective of the fictional Wilbury family) is that Vol. 3 was written and performed by a different set of Wilburys (hence the new Wilbury names), and that they skipped Vol. 2 so that title could be used if the original band ever reunites. This was a final nod to Orbison, effectively saying that the original band could never reunite. In the booklet contained in the 2007 box set (below), the album name is credited to 'George being George'.
THE 2007 REVIVAL
In the late 90s and early 2000s, the two Traveling Wilburys albums had limited availability and were out of print in most territories. Harrison, as primary holder of the rights, did not reissue them prior to his death. In June 2007, the two albums were reissued as a two CD and one DVD box set, originally announced by Tom Petty on his XM radio show and in the February 2007 edition of Q Magazine in an interview with Jeff Lynne.
The Traveling Wilburys reissue resulted in two editions of The Traveling Wilburys Collection release. Firstly, a standard edition (in a double Digipak packaging) which features both CD albums (with bonus tracks) and a DVD with a documentary and music videos, along with a 16-page booklet, and secondly a deluxe boxed edition with the same CDs and DVD, plus extensive 40-page booklet and artist postcards and photographs. On the iTunes Store, a digital version of The Traveling Wilburys Collection contains both albums with bonus tracks, the twenty-four- minute documentary, and five music videos.
The release surprised many when it debuted straight at number one in the UK Album Charts. The collection entered the charts at #9 on the US Billboard 200 (Billboard Magazine, for the week ending June 30, 2007). The group also hit number one on the Australian album charts, Amazon's pre-order and sales list, and iTunes. The Traveling Wilburys Collection also debuted at #1 in the United World Chart. The album sold 500,000 copies worldwide during the first 3 weeks and remained in the UK top 5 for seven weeks after its release.
BIOGRAPHY
By Stephen Thomas Erlewine
There never was a supergroup more super than the Traveling Wilburys. They had Jeff Lynne, the leader of ELO; they had Roy Orbison, the best pop singer of the '60s; they had Tom Petty, the best roots rocker this side of Bruce Springsteen; they had a Beatle and Bob Dylan, for crying out loud! It's impossible to picture a supergroup with a stronger pedigree than that (all that's missing is a Rolling Stone), but in another sense it's hard to call the Wilburys a true supergroup, since they arrived nearly two decades after the all-star craze of the '70s peaked, and they never had the self-important air of nearly all the other supergroups. That, of course, was the key to their charm: they were a group of friends who fell together easily, almost effortlessly, to record a B-side for a single for George Harrison; they had such a good time they stuck around to record a full album, which became a hit upon its 1988 release. The Traveling Wilburys was big enough to convince the group to record a second album, cheerfully and incongruously titled Vol. 3, two years later despite the death of Orbison. Like most sequels, the second didn't live up to expectations, and by the time it and its predecessor drifted out of print in the mid-'90s, with the rights reverting to Harrison, nobody much noticed. A few years later, though, it soon became apparent that the Wilburys' records -- mainly, the debut, widely beloved thanks to its two hits, "Handle with Care" and "End of the Line" -- were out of print, and they soon became valuable items as the Harrison estate dragged its heels on a reissue. Finally, the two albums were bundled up as a two-CD set simply called The Traveling Wilburys and reissued with a DVD/digital download containing a documentary and all the videos in the summer of 2007.
''THE TRAVELING WILBURYS, DISC TWO''
JUNE 12 2007
83:38
DISC ONE
1/Handle with Care/3:19
2/Dirty World/3:29
3/Rattled/2:59
4/Last Night/3:51
5/Not Alone Any More/3:24
6/Congratulations/3:29
7/Heading for the Light/3:36
8/Margarita/3:16
9/Tweeter and the Monkey Man/5:27
10/End of the Line/3:29
11/Maxine/2:49
Previously unreleased bonus track, with additional backing vocals by Jeff Lynne and Dhani Harrison and a guitar solo by Jeff Lynne added in 2007.
12/Like a Ship/3:30
Previously unreleased bonus track, with additional backing vocals by Jeff Lynne and Dhani Harrison and a guitar solo by Dhani Harrison added in 2007.
All Tracks By The Traveling Wilburys
DISC TWO
1/She's My Baby/3:15
2/Inside Out/3:35
3/If You Belonged to Me/3:13
4/The Devil's Been Busy/3:18
5/7 Deadly Sins/3:17
6/Poor House/3:16
7/Where Were You Last Night?/3:03
8/Cool Dry Place/3:37
9/New Blue Moon/3:20
10/You Took My Breath Away/3:18
11/Wilbury Twist/2:58
12/Nobody's Child
Cy Coben / Mel Foree/3:28
Bonus track, previously released on Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal.
13/Runaway
Del Shannon/2:30
Bonus track, originally released as the B-side to "She's My Baby" in the UK. Remixed, with a new clavioline solo replacing the original guitar/harmonica tracks recorded in 1990.
Tracks By The Traveling Wilburys, Except 12, 13
MEMBERS
The Traveling Wilburys of Volume 1 were:
Nelson Wilbury - George Harrison
Otis Wilbury - Jeff Lynne
Lefty Wilbury - Roy Orbison
Charlie T. Jr. - Tom Petty
Lucky Wilbury - Bob Dylan
The Traveling Wilburys of Volume 3 were:
Spike Wilbury - George Harrison
Clayton Wilbury - Jeff Lynne
Muddy Wilbury - Tom Petty
Boo Wilbury - Bob Dylan
Additional named Traveling Wilburys on the 2007 Collection were:
Buster Sidebury - Jim Keltner
Ayrton Wilbury - Dhani Harrison
Jim Keltner, the session drummer and percussionist, was not listed as a Wilbury in Volume 1 or 3; however he is in some of the music videos. In the DVD released in 2007, he is given the Wilbury nickname 'Buster Sidebury'. Furthermore, overdubs to the unreleased tracks "Maxine" and "Like A Ship" credit Ayrton Wilbury, a pseudonym for Dhani Harrison.
CREDITS
Ray Cooper / Percussion
Jim Horn / Saxophone
Jim Keltner / Percussion, Drums
Gary Moore / Guitar
Ian Wallace / Tom-Tom
Ayrton Wilbury / Guitar, Vocals (bckgr), Soloist
Boo Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Harmonica, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Clayton Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Clavoline, Mixing, Soloist
Lefty Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Lucky Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Muddy Wilbury / Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Nelson Wilbury / Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer
Otis Wilbury / Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Mixing, Soloist
Spike Wilbury Guitar (Acoustic), Mandolin, Guitar (Electric), Sitar, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer
HISTORY
Initially starting at a meal between Roy Orbison, George Harrison, and Jeff Lynne, they got together at Bob Dylan's studio at Santa Monica, California to record an additional track as a B-side for the single release of Harrison's "This Is Love". Tom Petty's involvement was by chance as Harrison had left his guitar at Petty's house. The song they came up with was "Handle with Care". However, the record company immediately realized it was too good to be released as a "single filler".
They enjoyed working together so much that they decided to create an album together. Written by all its members, the album was recorded over a ten-day period in May 1988 because Dylan was due to go on tour. Released on October 18, 1988 (under various pseudonyms as half-brothers, supposed sons of Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.), the album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 was in 1989 ranked #70 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. It was later nominated for a Grammy under the category Album of the Year. The death of band member Roy Orbison (on December 6, 1988) prevented further full collaborations; however, the band continued without him. The band even finished the video for "End of the Line". In the scene where the verse is sung by Orbison, the viewer is shown Orbison's guitar in a rocking chair followed by a photo of the late artist.
"Wilburys" was a slang term coined by Harrison and Lynne during the recording of Cloud Nine as a reference to recorded "flubs" that could be eliminated during the mixing stage (i.e. "'We'll bury' them in the mix"). The term was used again when the entire group was together. Harrison suggested "The Trembling Wilburys" as the group's name, but Lynne suggested using "Traveling" instead. Everyone agreed.
The Traveling Wilburys contributed the title track "Nobody's Child" to the album Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal, released on July 24, 1990. The album was a benefit for the Romanian Angel Appeal, a charity launched by Olivia Harrison, Barbara Bach, Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney to help the orphaned children of Romania.
A second album entitled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 was released on October 30, 1990. However, the album met with less success. Harrison once claimed in an MTV interview that the band had written material for a Vol. 2, but the material was stolen before completion. The "official" story (that is, from the perspective of the fictional Wilbury family) is that Vol. 3 was written and performed by a different set of Wilburys (hence the new Wilbury names), and that they skipped Vol. 2 so that title could be used if the original band ever reunites. This was a final nod to Orbison, effectively saying that the original band could never reunite. In the booklet contained in the 2007 box set (below), the album name is credited to 'George being George'.
THE 2007 REVIVAL
In the late 90s and early 2000s, the two Traveling Wilburys albums had limited availability and were out of print in most territories. Harrison, as primary holder of the rights, did not reissue them prior to his death. In June 2007, the two albums were reissued as a two CD and one DVD box set, originally announced by Tom Petty on his XM radio show and in the February 2007 edition of Q Magazine in an interview with Jeff Lynne.
The Traveling Wilburys reissue resulted in two editions of The Traveling Wilburys Collection release. Firstly, a standard edition (in a double Digipak packaging) which features both CD albums (with bonus tracks) and a DVD with a documentary and music videos, along with a 16-page booklet, and secondly a deluxe boxed edition with the same CDs and DVD, plus extensive 40-page booklet and artist postcards and photographs. On the iTunes Store, a digital version of The Traveling Wilburys Collection contains both albums with bonus tracks, the twenty-four- minute documentary, and five music videos.
The release surprised many when it debuted straight at number one in the UK Album Charts. The collection entered the charts at #9 on the US Billboard 200 (Billboard Magazine, for the week ending June 30, 2007). The group also hit number one on the Australian album charts, Amazon's pre-order and sales list, and iTunes. The Traveling Wilburys Collection also debuted at #1 in the United World Chart. The album sold 500,000 copies worldwide during the first 3 weeks and remained in the UK top 5 for seven weeks after its release.
BIOGRAPHY
By Stephen Thomas Erlewine
There never was a supergroup more super than the Traveling Wilburys. They had Jeff Lynne, the leader of ELO; they had Roy Orbison, the best pop singer of the '60s; they had Tom Petty, the best roots rocker this side of Bruce Springsteen; they had a Beatle and Bob Dylan, for crying out loud! It's impossible to picture a supergroup with a stronger pedigree than that (all that's missing is a Rolling Stone), but in another sense it's hard to call the Wilburys a true supergroup, since they arrived nearly two decades after the all-star craze of the '70s peaked, and they never had the self-important air of nearly all the other supergroups. That, of course, was the key to their charm: they were a group of friends who fell together easily, almost effortlessly, to record a B-side for a single for George Harrison; they had such a good time they stuck around to record a full album, which became a hit upon its 1988 release. The Traveling Wilburys was big enough to convince the group to record a second album, cheerfully and incongruously titled Vol. 3, two years later despite the death of Orbison. Like most sequels, the second didn't live up to expectations, and by the time it and its predecessor drifted out of print in the mid-'90s, with the rights reverting to Harrison, nobody much noticed. A few years later, though, it soon became apparent that the Wilburys' records -- mainly, the debut, widely beloved thanks to its two hits, "Handle with Care" and "End of the Line" -- were out of print, and they soon became valuable items as the Harrison estate dragged its heels on a reissue. Finally, the two albums were bundled up as a two-CD set simply called The Traveling Wilburys and reissued with a DVD/digital download containing a documentary and all the videos in the summer of 2007.
