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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".
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Apr 28, 2023 · Before they all got in a room together, each member of the Traveling Wilburys were friends or at least connected in some varying degree of separation. They've all achieved stardom and cultural significance on some levels, so had crossed paths previously and attended each other's shows.
Feb 28, 2023 · Sometimes these artists don’t have the fire without their bandmates, but the connection between the Traveling Wilburys came together through dumb luck. Before working with the rest of the band, George Harrison was already friends with Tom Petty, having done some work on his album Full Moon Fever.
The five frontmen (Harrison, Lynne, Petty, Dylan, and Orbison) decided not to use their own names. George and Jeff had been calling studio equipment (limiters, equalizers) “wilburys.” So first they named their fivesome The Trembling Wilburys. Jeff suggested “Traveling” instead. Everyone agreed.
- Bob Dylan
- George Harrison
- Roy Orbison
- Tom Petty
- Jeff Lynne
In the early 60s, Bob Dylan emerged as an astonishingly prolific folk singer who doffed his flat cap to Woody Guthrie; with songs such as “Blowin’ In The Wind” he quickly established himself as a pioneering protest singer. Fast outstripping that scene, however, Dylan altered the face of rock music with his “thin, wild mercury sound,” as captured on...
As one of The Beatles, George Harrison blazed a trail through pop music like no other guitarist of his generation. He is almost single-handedly responsible for introducing Eastern music into mainstream Western rock and pop, while, as the 60s progressed, he became that rarest of beasts: a lead guitarist with impeccable songwriting skills. “Here Come...
The one Wilbury with roots to Sun Records and the birth of rock’n’roll in the 50s, Roy Orbison brought a special gravitas to the group. With songs such as “In Dreams” and “Only The Lonely,” Orbison patented a strain of emotive songwriting that continues to send chills down the spine, while “Oh, Pretty Woman” showed that he could knock out a transat...
As both a solo artist and leader of The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty has embodied heartland rock like no other artist. The Heartbreakers might have emerged at the height of punk, yet songs such as “American Girl” established the group as a raw roots-rock outfit that could more than hold their own among the political firebrands. As a solo artist, Petty ...
A leader of Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne established his group as the 70s’ answer to The Beatles, working up increasingly ambitious pop-rock masterpieces such as “Livin’ Thing” and “Mr. Blue Sky,” which have gone on to define the decade. It’s fitting, then, that in the wake of ELO’s split, Lynne would go on to co-produce George Harrison’s l...
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Jun 2, 2020 · In March 1990, Harrison, Lynne, Petty and Dylan would reunite once more to work on their sophomore album, a record they intentionally misnumbered Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3. The material arrived as a dedication to Orbison, as ‘Lefty Wilbury’ which was the pseudonym that Orbison had used in 1988 in honour of his hero Lefty Frizzell.
Oct 29, 2020 · 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 ...
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