01	Handle With Care (Vol.1)						03:22
	02	Dirty World (Vol.1)						03:32
	03	Rattled (Vol.1)						03:02
	04	Last Night (Vol.1)						03:54
	05	Not Alone Any More (Vol.1)						03:28
	06	Congratulations (Vol.1)						03:32
	07	Heading For The Light (Vol.1)						03:39
	08	Margarita (Vol.1)						03:19
	09	Tweeter And The Monkey Man (Vol.1)						05:30
	10	End Of The Line (Vol.1)						03:29
	11	She's My Baby (Vol.3)						03:18
	12	Inside Out (Vol.3)						03:38
	13	If You Belonged To Me (Vol.3)						03:16
	14	The Devil's Been Busy (Vol.3)						03:20
	15	7 Deadly Sins (Vol.3)						03:21
	16	Poor House (Vol.3)						03:19
	17	Where Were You Last Night (Vol.3)						03:06
	18	Cool Dry Place (Vol.3)						03:39
	19	New Blue Moon (Vol.3)						03:23
	20	You Took My Breath Away (Vol.3)						03:21
	21	Wilbury Twist (Vol.3)						02:56

George Harrison
Nelson Wilbury
Spike Wilbury

George is best known as a Beatle. Born on 25th February 1943, he grew up in Liverpool, England. Harrison first expressed his hostility to his "chundering" schoolmasters by dressing in outlandish outfits and sleeping in class, but by the age of thirteen, he had discovered a far better way to channel his anger: playing guitar. George took a liking to skiffle music (a genre of folk-derived music played on acoustic guitars, string basses, and washboards), an appreciation he shared with Paul McCartney, whom he usually sat next to on the bus. The two also found they shared an interest in American rock-and-roll music.

McCartney had the good fortune to join up with a local band named the Quarry Men that included another schoolmate, John Lennon, and Harrison joined the group under McCartney's auspices the following year, in 1958. George was sufficiently inspired by the group's success to drop out of the Liverpool Institute to pursue his rock-and-roll dream more earnestly, working as an electrician's apprentice to pay his living expenses (he soon quit because he kept blowing things up). Considerably younger than the rest of the boys, George nevertheless overcame his insecurity and proved himself to be an adept and inventive guitarist. When The Quarry Men finally evolved into the Beatles, Harrison was mature enough in his style to act as lead guitarist.

On the set of the Beatles' 1965 movie, Help!, Harrison picked up a peculiar-looking stringed instrument called a sitar for the first time. Harrison accepted instruction on the sitar from famed Indian musician Ravi Shankar, and subsequently traveled to India to steep himself in Eastern philosophy. The trip and his association with Shankar and religious leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ignited a spiritual awakening in Harrison, and his ideas about life and his sense of his own humility would change forever.

When the Beatles split, George was free to explore his full capability. George had always been frustrated in the songwriting department by the prolific Lennon and McCartney, and the end of the Beatles sparked in him something of a musical rebirth. He moved into record production (he formed Dark Horse Records in 1974) and collaborated with other artists (notably Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton). Harrison teamed with Phil Spector to produce his first post-Beatles solo effort, the appropriately titled All Things Must Pass (1970). The album confirmed Harrison's vast and theretofore unrealized talents as a lyricist, musician, composer, and producer.

Harrison tried other projects, both behind the scenes and on center stage: he formed a film production company, HandMade Films, in 1978, producing such memorable films as Monty Python's Life of Brian and Time Bandits; he appeared in a number of films, most notably in a cameo in Monty Python's witty ribbing of Beatles mythology, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978); he produced and guest-starred as a guitarist on a slew of other artists' albums; and he penned his autobiography, I Me Mine, and of course there was the Wilburys.

For all his hard work, Harrison was honored as the first recipient of Billboard's Century Award, in 1992, the publication's highest distinction for extraordinary creative achievement (he also boasts a total of six Grammy awards and an Oscar that he shares with the other Beatles). Harrison's most recent collaborations included with his fellow ex-Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, on the sweeping retrospective (in the forms of a television documentary and three volumes of previously unavailable recordings), The Beatles Anthology, as well as work on Ringo Starr's album, and Jools Hollands' album.

George Harrison died of cancer on the 29th of November 2001.


Bob Dylan
Lucky Wilbury
Boo Wilbury


Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota. Robert started writing poems around the age of ten, and taught himself piano and guitar in his early teens.

Bob began studying at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1959. He began to perform solo at local nightspots. It was around this time, too, that he adopted the stage name Bob Dylan.

The following year, he dropped out of college and went to New York with two things on his mind: to become a part of Greenwich Village's burgeoning folk-music scene, and to meet singer Woody Guthrie, who was hospitalized in New Jersey with a rare, hereditary disease of the nervous system. He succeeded on both counts.

In the fall of 1961, Dylan's legend began to spread beyond folk circles and into the world. A month later, Columbia Records executive John Hammond signed Dylan to a recording contract, releasing his first album early in 1962.

Promising as that first album was, it didn't prepare anyone for the masterpiece that came next. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, released in 1963, contained two of the sixties' most durable folk anthems, "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," the breathtaking ballads "Girl From the North Country" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," and nine other originals that marked the emergence of the most distinctive and poetic voice in the history of American popular music.

A near-fatal motorcycle accident on July 29, 1966, proved a blessing in disguise, allowing Dylan to retreat to the solitude of his home in Woodstock, New York.

While Dylan had toured regularly since returning to the stage with the Band in 1974, beginning in the mid-eighties he hit the road full-time, first with all-star cronies Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead, then, starting in 1988, with a small rock combo led by guitarist and Saturday Night Live musical director G.E. Smith.

Time Out of Mind, which was released in September 1997, became Dylan's first gold record of the decade. He continues to tour.


Jeff Lynne
Otis Wilbury
Clayton Wilbuy


Jeffrey Lynne was born on 30th December 1947 in Birmingham, UK. When he was fifteen, Jeff was given a plastic guitar by his father.

After playing guitar in various local groups, in 1966 he joined a local Birmingham band called The Nightriders, who were looking for a guitar player through an advert. He impressed his fellow band members with his stunning guitar technique and proved to be a good singer and harmonizer, too. The band subsequently changed their name to The Idle Race and made Jeff their front man. The Idle Race released two albums, The Birthday Party (1968) and Idle Race (1969) plus a couple of singles, but never made it big.

In 1970 Jeff Lynne left the band in order to join The Move, accepting Roy Wood's invitation, who promised his friend Lynne to launch a new project, called The Electric Light Orchestra, which had been on his mind for a couple of years. Their idea was to form a ten-piece ensemble with cellos, violins, french horn etc. and play symphonic rock. "... I suppose that the Electric Light Orchestra is meant to take up where 'I Am The Warus' left off, and to present it on stage." It took them almost two years to fulfill their ambitious plan to transform The Move into The Electric Light Orchestra since its first public announcement in May 1970 - they did not release ELO's eponymous debut album until December 1971.

While the first three albums Electric Light Orchestra (1971), Electric Light Orchestra II (1972) and On The Third Day (1973) were somewhat experimental and seemed to lack direction, their fourth album, Eldorado (1974) was a ground breaking success and defined the new direction of the group's overall sound. Face The Music (1975) gave Jeff Lynne his first worldwide smash with the single "Evil Woman".

In 1979 Lynne gave the world Discovery, and it became ELO's most successful worldwide release, reaching No. 1 and shipping platinum.

In 1986, after a charity gig in Birmingham, a final gig in Wembley Stadium and two more shows in Germany, Jeff finally lost interest and split the band, moving onto a solo career involving writing, recording and producing some of rock's biggest names: George Harrison (Cloud Nine, 1987), Roy Orbison (Mystery Girl, 1989 and King Of Hearts, 1992), Tom Petty (Full Moon Fever, 1989 and Into The Great Wide Open, 1991) and Del Shannon (Rock On!, 1991). When his record company, Warner Bros. offered him the chance to release a solo album, he came up with Armchair Theater (1990).

In 1994/95 he fulfilled a lifetime's ambition and stepped into George Martin's shoes, producing his idols, The Beatles. He worked on two songs for their Anthology project, the reunion single "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love", another Lennon demo. Subsequently, Paul McCartney asked Lynne to help him on his next solo album, Flaming Pie, (1997) which contains eight tracks co-produced by Jeff.


Roy Orbison
Lefty Wilbury


Born Roy Kelton Orbison on April 23rd 1936, he grew up in the heart of the Texan oil fields. He began playing and singing with local bands - his first was with The Wink Westerners. Roy moved on to The Teen Kings who - at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico - recorded a single which was only released locally. Acting on Johnny Cash's advice, Roy sent a copy of the song - Ooby Dooby - to Sun Records' founder Sam Phillips. Phillips liked what he heard, Roy drove to Memphis, and by June 1956 Sun had released its first Roy Orbison hit single.

Roy left Sun in 1957 and signed to music publishers Acuff-Rose, convinced his true calling was as a songwriter. Indeed, his song Claudette - written while at Sun - was a Top Thirty hit for the Everly Brothers in 1958.

Roy was soon to be moving up following a conversation between his manager Wesley Rose and a former Mercury promotion man, Fred Foster. Foster had heard a record by Warren Smith on Sun - Rock and Roll Ruby. "Fred thought I'd recorded that and so he signed me, thinking I was someone else!", said Roy.

Eight top ten hits in the four years between 1960 and 1964 paved the way for the biggest selling record of his career, Oh, Pretty Woman. Estimated to have sold over 7 million copies in 1964 alone, it topped the American charts for three weeks.

Orbison also toured Britain regularly, initially sharing a bill with The Beatles (who, at that time, were by and large unknowns in america). "I messed up the first day I got there. I walked out in this little theatre and they had Beatles placards everywhere, life-size ones. And I said, 'what's all this? What is a Beatle anyway?' and John Lennon said, 'I'm one'. He was standing right behind me".

Roy's private life was marred when - in the midst of reconciliation with his ex-wife, Claudette, she was killed in a motor-cycle accident. Two years later in 1968, two of Roy's sons were killed in a housefire. Reduced to touring clubs, Roy returned to his country roots and recorded for Mercury and Asylum in the '70's.

Signing to Virgin, and with all of his old original recordings embroiled in bankruptcy proceedings, Orbison set about re-recording his songs "just so's they would be available" and released a double-set - In Dreams.

In 1987, Roy was inducted in to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and with his career rejuvenated, Orbison fronted the extraordinary TV special recorded at the Coconut Grove in Los angeles - Roy Orbison and Friends: a Black and White Night. Roy's friends who became his backing band were indeed stellar - Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, k d lang, Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes and more.

In December 1988, Roy died, suddenly, from a heart attack.

Posthumously released in 1989, Roy's Mystery Girl album became the biggest selling record of his career. That success was sparked by two more top ten hits, You Got It (written by fellow Wilburys' Petty and Jeff Lynne) and I Drove all Night In 1992, Virgin released King Of Hearts, a collection of previously unissued songs.


Tom Petty
Charlie T. Jnr.
Muddy Wilbury


Petty, began playing the guitar his mother bought for him from the Sears catalogue since the age of thirteen. He was swept up in Beatlemania, and in high school became the bass player for the Epics. By eighteen, Petty had formed a new collective called Mudcrutch. The members of the band scattered following the disappointing reaction to their one Shelter Records single release, "Depot Street."

The members of Mudcrutch reunited (with a few additions) in 1975 as the Heartbreakers, with a significantly more musically mature Petty up front, to record their first album Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (1976). In England, the band scored a Top 40 hit Stateside with "Breakdown." Their second album, You're Gonna Get It!, fell short of their expectations, both commercially and critically.

In 1978, Shelter was acquired by MCA Records, and Petty expressed his unhappiness with being bundled into the arrangement by demanding to be released from his contract. MCA responded by slapping him with a breach-of-contract suit. The band, which was forced to declare bankruptcy, nevertheless persevered in their attempt to record a third studio album. Petty triumphed in the case, and was released from his contract - in an ironic twist, he turned around and signed with Backstreet Records, a label distributed by MCA.

When the record company tried to cash in on the booming popularity of their third album, Damn the Torpedoes by pricing his fourth album, Hard Promises, at $9.98 instead of the normal $8.98, Petty organized fan protests (he even threatened to title the album Eight Ninety-Eight in defiance of the price hike) and withheld the album until MCA finally backed down.

Recording Southern Accents turned out to be a trying and emotionally draining process for the reassembled band members, especially for Petty, who became so distraught while listening to the playback of the album that he slammed his hand into the studio wall, breaking it so severely that he was told he might never play guitar again. He recovered, and the album was a phenomenal hit.

Sandwiched in between many other efforts, Petty released his first solo album, Full Moon Fever, to delighted critical reception and career-high sales. The band bid adieu to MCA following the release of 1993's Greatest Hits album; Petty signed with Warner Bros. and cut his second solo effort, Wildflowers, the following year. The album was a commercial disappointment, and Petty jumped at the opportunity to reunite with the Heartbreakers to record the soundtrack for the 1996 film She's the One.

The Heartbreakers recently released the album 'Echo'.



How It All Began...

After George Harrisons' album 'Cloud Nine' was completed, George found himself having to create a bonus track for the European twelve inch of 'When We Was Fab'. Since Jeff Lynne had played an integral part in the creation of George's album, including appearing in the 'When We Was Fab' music video along with Ringo Starr, Jeff postponed his other projects: work on Roy Orbison's album 'Mystery Girl', and his work on tracks for Tom Petty.



Roy Orbison was on the conversation's edge when the two Englishmen discussed this over lunch in Los Angeles. George was impressed that Roy knew so much about Monty Python. George was delighted when Orbison volunteered to sing with him on this extra track.



"And so I just thought I'll just go into the studio tomorrow and do one, and it happened that Jeff was working with Roy and Roy wanted to come." - George Harrison

It wasn't worth booking anywhere expensive so George telephoned Bob Dylan in Santa Monica whose 'little Ampex in the corner of his garage' was available the next day.

"And the only studio that we could find available was Bob's. So we thought, Bobs got one, we'll just call him up." - George Harrison

Arriving late the following morning, Roy shook hands with Tom Petty - who Jeff, and to a lesser extent, George, had assisted in the production of a Del Shannon album in 1987, after Petty's group had backed Dylan on the tour that had terminated at Wembley. Petty had either tagged along, or was asked by George to come along.

"My guitar was at Tom's house for some reason and I had to go round and get it." - George Harrison

"Then George showed up again and George had a single coming out and he needed a new B-Side." - Tom Petty



From merely providing refreshments, Dylan lent a hand when Harrison - with his B-Side only half-finished - said, "Give us some lyrics, you famous lyricist." To Bob's enquiry as to the subject matter:

"I looked behind the garage door and there was a cardboard box with 'Handle with Care' on it." - George Harrison

"So we went out there to Bob Dylan's house, sat on the grass and from the germ of an idea that George had on the guitar we wound up writing this song called 'Handle With Care'." - Tom Petty



George added what he called 'a lonely bit' for Orbison, while Dylan wheezed the trademark harmonica on the fade.

"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." - George Harrison

Next day, Roy left for a one-nighter in Anaheim near Long Beach, Bob carried on preparing for a summer tour, and George slipped over to Warners with the new tape. After it was said to be to good to hide under a twelve-inch forty-five, he discussed with Jeff, over a quantity of Mexican lager, the idea of cutting a whole LP.

When the two skidded up to his house with the plan, Petty jumped at the chance, while over the phone, Dylan agreed. That evening, Jeff, George, Tom and their wives drove down the coast to Anaheim to put it before Oribson. Roy said, "That'd be great."

"We watched Roy give an incredible concert and kept nudging each other and saying, 'Isn't he great? He's in our band.' We were real happy that night." - Tom Petty

The album was completed over the summer of 1988. It "worked because it was so unplanned'". Most of the composing took place at the house of Dylan's then producer, Dave Stewart. Nourished by a continuous barbecue, George's team would "assemble after breakfast at about one in the afternoon, and just sit around with acoustic guitars - then someone would have a title or a chord pattern and we'd let it roll."

Due to Lefty's tour, only ten days could be set aside for recording.



The word Wilbury entered the fives vocabulary. It had been an in-joke during Cloud Nine, referring to studio gremlins. First, 'The Trembling Wilburys' was suggested as a name when, remembered Lynne, he and George had "this fantasy idea. We'd start inventing a group that would have all our favourite people." Ultimately the vote went to Traveling.

Harrison was the most avid Wilbury plugger. Later, he'd chew over the likelihood of a full-length movie based on the sleevenotes attributed to Michael Palin from a brainwave of Derek Taylors.

Masquerading as half brothers sired by the same father - Charles Truscott Wilbury, Senior - the five appeared under their chosen pseudonyms.





1.1. Who are The Traveling Wilburys?

George Harrison (Of The Beatles)
Tom Petty (Of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
Roy Orbison
Bob Dylan
Jeff Lynne (Of Electric Light Orchestra (E.L.O.))
1.1.b Who are the rest of the band, e.g. the drummer?
The 'Sideburys', as they are often referred to are Jim Keltner (Drums), Jim Horn (Sax), Ray Cooper (Percussion) and Ian Wallace (Tom-toms on Handle With Care).

1.2. Why are there only four Wilburys on Volume 3?
Roy Orbison died of a heart attack after Volume 1, in December 1988. Volume 3 is dedicated to him.

1.3. Why is there no mention on the albums of any of these guys?
They chose to use fake names as a bit of a joke.
George became Nelson/Spike
Tom became Charlie T. Jnr./Muddy
Roy became Lefty
Bob became Lucky/Boo
Jeff became Otis/Clayton

1.4. Are The Traveling Wilbury's still together?
With Roy and George now passed away the band has drastically diminished. But technically, yes. When they got together it was just a part-time thing, so they can't really break-up. If they felt like doing something, and they had the time, they would. It seems doubtful that they'll do anything more though, with just 3 of them left.




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2.1. Why 'The Traveling Wilburys'?
It was an in-joke between Jeff Lynne and George Harrison during the making of George's solo album, 'Cloud Nine', to call the gremlins, or errors, in the recording equipment, 'Wilburys'.
When the group was formed this name came up again. George suggested 'The Trembling Wilburys', but lost out to Traveling. I've heard Bob can be very persuasive...

2.2. How did they get together?
George was recording a B-Side for one of his Cloud Nine singles.
Jeff was producing it.
He was also producing Roy's latest album and while the three of them had lunch, Roy volunteered to sing on George's song.
The only recording studio they could find that was available was Bob's.
George's guitar was round Tom's house. When they went to pick it up, Tom tagged along.



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3.1. How many albums have they made?
There are 2 Traveling Wilburys albums: Volume 1 and Volume 3. THERE IS NO OFFICIAL VOLUME 2.
They also appeared on The Romanian Angel Appeal performing 'Nobody's Child'.
There are a few bootlegs going around, of which the main ones are covered on the discography page, but these are generally made up of solo songs which one or two of the Wilburys worked on.

3.2. Is there going to be another Traveling Wilbury's album?
This is the million dollar question. Tom Petty stated in 1999, that there would probably be a new album in 2000. Jeff said in the year 2000 that there would be an album that year. There wasn't. With Roy and George now passed away it seems highly unlikely that the remaining 3 will do anything together. But you never know...

3.3. What album is 'You Got It' on?
'You Got It' is a Roy Orbison song, not a Traveling Wilbury song. Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne co-wrote it with Roy and sang backing vocals, but it's not a Wilbury song.






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4.1. Why can't I find any of their albums?
They have been discontinued, including the Romanian Angel Appeal. I heard it was due to some conflict with Warner Records.

4.2. So where can I get them?
Second hand record shops are a good bet, but even then you'd be lucky. A great place that always has them in stock is http://www.hardtofindcds.com. Another good place I found to order them over the Internet is GEMM, at http://wilburys.gemm.com, or at an auction site such as http://www.ebay.com

4.3. Why aren't there any mp3 files on this site?
People are always asking me to put mp3 files up and one day I might. But I'm not sure I really want to get in to all that as it's a bit of a hassle and I'd probably get grief from some record company. Still, one day when I find a place I can put them, you never know...
Alternatively, you can listen to my Traveling Wilburys Radio station here.



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5.1. Why is Carrie Fisher thanked for 'You Took My Breath Away' on Volume 3?
I got an e-mail from Carrie Fisher's office explaining to me why Carrie Fisher is thanked on Volume 3 for the song 'You Took My Breath Away'. Her personal response was: "I gave George Harrison that lyric (you took my breath away and now I want it back) ......and he used it in that song. It was from a poem I wrote when I was in my late teens. (17?)"

5.2. Have the Wilburys ever played live? Will they ever?
As a group they have never played live. Although various combinations of the members have played together at times.
I doubt they will ever play live. In the beginning, George said that he would be happy to tour if the others wanted to. But nobody is really that keen. They're all too busy with their own stuff anyway!

5.3. Is there a Traveling Wilburys mailing list?
It's funny you should ask that, because there is! It's run by Clemma Wilbury. It's a reasonably quiet mailing list with people writing to deliver Wilbury related news and just asking questions and the like. You can join at the yahoogroups website.




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Quotes

"And it was a great thrill to get to write a song with him when he came to do an album that Jeff was producing, they invited me over and I met Roy Orbison and on that very day we sat down and wrote this song called 'You Got It'." - Tom Petty

"So much has been said about Roy, I just feel real lucky to have had the opportunity to know him and to work with him. He was the greatest singer that I ever heard, ever." - Tom Petty on Roy Orbison

"And so I just thought I'll just go into the studio tomorrow and do one, and it happened that Jeff was working with Roy and Roy wanted to come. My guitar was at Tom's house for some reason and I had to go round and get it. And the only studio that we could find available was Bob's. So we thought, Bobs got one, we'll just call him up." - George Harrison on the formation of the Wilburys

"So we went out there to Bob Dylan's house, sat on the grass and from the germ of an idea that George had on the guitar we wound up writing this song called 'Handle With Care'." - Tom Petty

"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." - George Harrison on writing 'Handle With Care'

"Some people have difficulty with certain lyrics. Tom, he'll go anyway." - George Harrison on Tom Petty

"All I can really say about him is, you know, we loved him. We told him, fortunately, at any given opportunity, you know any time we had we always told him we loved him. We always hugged him. And we said 'Roy, you're so great.' I once said to him, 'Roy, you're probably the greatest singer in the world.' and he said, '...probably.'" - Tom Petty on Roy Orbison

"Give us some lyrics, you famous lyricist." - George Harrisson to Bob Dylan while writing 'Handle With Care'

"We all enjoyed it so much. It was so relaxed. There was no ego involved and there was some sort of chemistry going on." - Roy Orbison on The Wilburys

"We watched Roy give an incredible concert and kept nudging each other and saying, 'Isn't he great? He's in our band.' We were real happy that night." - Tom Petty on the night Roy Orbison agreed to form the Wilburys

"Some said daddy was a cad and a bounder but I remember him as a Baptist minister." - Roy Orbison on The Wilburys father

"...if the others wanted to tour, I'd be inclined to do something." - George Harrisson on a Wilbury tour