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WHERE THERE'S A WILBURY, THERE'S A WAYTraveling
Wilburys Music Available for the First Time in a Decade Remastered and Expanded Collectible Packages Feature Unreleased
Bonus Tracks and DVD Nearly twenty years after the
creation of the band, and over a decade since the music was last available
to fans, the music of The Traveling Wilburys will be reissued in June
in South Africa. The previously released albums
Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 and Traveling Wilburys Volume
3 feature inarguably some of music's greatest singer-songwriters—George
Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan—as the
iconic band The Traveling Wilburys. Both CDs will be combined into one
release, The Traveling Wilburys Collection, and will feature
bonus tracks of rare and newly mixed previously unreleased music
along with a bonus DVD featuring a 24-minute documentary showing unseen
footage of the Wilburys and their five video clips. The Traveling Wilburys collectible
packages will be available in four configurations. Each configuration
is a remarkable commemoration of this unique group.
Track Listing: Disc One TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 11. Handle With Care 2. Dirty World 3. Rattled 4. Last Night 5. Not Alone Any More 6. Congratulations 7. Heading For The Light 8. Margarita 9. Tweeter And The Monkey Man 10. End Of The Line Bonus Tracks: 11. Maxine* 12. Like A Ship* Disc TwoDVD - The True History Of The Traveling WilburysMusic Videos: 1. Handle With Care 2. End Of The Line 3. Inside Out 4. She's My Baby 5. Wilbury Twist Disc Three TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 3 1. She's My Baby 2. Inside Out 3. If You Belonged To Me 4. The Devil's Been Busy 5. 7 Deadly Sins 6. Poor House 7. Where Were You Last Night? 8. Cool Dry Place 9. New Blue Moon 10. You Took My Breath Away 11. Wilbury Twist Bonus Tracks: 12. Runaway (B-side to “She's My Baby” UK CD and 12″) 13. Nobody's Child (previously
released on Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal) How The Traveling Wilburys happenedThe Traveling Wilburys was not a carefully planned band, not formed from deep premeditation. Rather, the band was created in a casual blending of genuine friends one ordinary afternoon, which turned out to be anything but ordinary. In trying to explain how the
Wilburys originally came together, George Harrison once said, “The
thing about the Wilburys for me is—if we'd tried to plan it, or
if anybody had said, let's form this band and get these people in
it—it would never happen, it's impossible. It happened completely,
just by magic, just by circumstance. Maybe there was a full moon that
night or something like that. It was quite a magical little thing really.”. George Harrison needed a B-side
song to accompany a European single release from his widely regarded
Cloud Nine album. While in Los Angeles, George approached Jeff
Lynne for help with the B-side, since he had co-produced the album.
It happened that Jeff was working with Roy Orbison on the upcoming
Mystery Girl album. Roy readily agreed to lend a hand in the
musical effort. As fate would luckily dictate, George's guitar was
at Tom Petty's house, and he too offered to join in and make some
music. When the group showed up to record, Dylan also lent a hand to
help complete the half-finished song George had written. George has
often been quoted as saying, “And so everybody was there and I thought,
I'm not gonna just sing it myself, I've got Roy Orbison standing
there. I'm gonna write a bit for Roy to sing. And then, as it
progressed, then I started doing the vocals and I just thought I might
as well push it a bit and get Tom and Bob to sing the bridge.” The
final result was a song called “Handle With Care.” George later
said, “I liked the song and the way that it turned out with all these
people on it so much that I just carried it around in my pocket for
ages thinking, Well what can I do with this thing? And
the only thing to do I could think of was do another nine. Make an album.” The album they created was
called the Traveling Wilburys Volume 1—a playful nod
to the reality that subsequent volumes were unlikely. Volume 1
was released in October 1988 preceded by the single “Handle With Care.”
The album achieved wide critical acclaim, and most critics agreed that
the music was so extraordinary because of the modest ambitions of the
band, which translated to a fresh and relaxing sound. Rolling Stone
Magazine instantly called it one of the Top 100 Albums of all time.
The album also saw commercial success; it reached #3 on the Album charts,
garnered double-platinum status and earned the group a Grammy®
for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. In 1990, following the unexpected
death of Roy Orbison in December 1988, the remaining members reconvened
to record Traveling Wilburys Volume 3,
dedicating the album to Lefty (Roy) Wilbury. With Harrison and Lynne
producing again, both “She's My Baby” and “Wilbury Twist”
became radio hits as the album reached #11 in the U.S. and achieved
Platinum success. |
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