Traveling Wilburys The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 (Vinyl, Wilbury Records, 1990) ***
Genre: Beatles pop/rock (filled under Harrison in my collection)
Places I remember: Marbecks Records; Record store in Nelson for Vol 3.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Handle Me With Care (featuring Nelson Wilbury)
Gear costume: Not Alone Anymore (featuring Lefty Wilbury)
Active compensatory factors: Growing out of George's need for a B-side following his Cloud Nine album - Handle Me With Care kicked off the whole Traveling Wilbury's schtick.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Handle Me With Care (featuring Nelson Wilbury)
Gear costume: Not Alone Anymore (featuring Lefty Wilbury)
The subsequent album called Volume 1 from this multi-national supergroup (Dylan, Petty, Harrison, Orbison, Lynne) was a delightful surprise when it emerged in 1988.
Undisputed star turn of the bunch was Roy Orbison (Lefty Wilbury). His vocals lift every song he approaches on the album. The over-riding feelings throughout are ones of spontaneous joy/happiness/fun/brotherhood (hence the Ramones style names).
They probably had a lot of fun singing and playing together on Volume 3 (there was no Volume 2 from these cheeky chappies) but, compared to Volume 1, it doesn't quite sound like that.
Maybe the fact Roy O had passed away (Lefty had left the building), or maybe because the songs weren't as strong, or maybe second album syndrome or maybe it was because George's songs weren't the lynchpins this time. Maybe all of the above. Who knows. But it wasn't a patch on Volume 1.
Where do they all belong? A lot more than a footnote on their careers - Traveling Wilburys fashioned a really distinctive group sound. That said, it sits at the end of the George Harrison section in my collection.
Where do they all belong? A lot more than a footnote on their careers - Traveling Wilburys fashioned a really distinctive group sound. That said, it sits at the end of the George Harrison section in my collection.
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