And then, well I’d heard of Roy Orbison, and by the end of this album, I really knew who was. Dang, that’s a voice! And we get Tom Petty, adding yet another great dimension to the album. And him and Jeff Lynne kept the party going on Full Moon Fever. and the addition of the newly-recorded “I’ll Feel A Lot Better” to commercialize the album a bit) MCA the other two Wilburys albums and only use original compositions. This would exclude miscellaneous cover songs The Traveling Wilburys' first album, Traveling Wilburys: Volume 1 was released in 1988. It reached #3 on Billboard's list of very good albums and sold enough copies for triple platinum. [3] [5]

RIAA – Gold & Platinum – March4, 2011: The Traveling Wilburys certified awards". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 4 March 2011. Nelson Wilbury ( George Harrison) – lead and harmony vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, slide guitar The whole experience was some of the best days of my life, really, and I think it probably was for us all ... The thing I guess would be hardest for people to understand is what good friends we were. It really had very little to do with combining a bunch of famous people. It was a bunch of friends that just happened to be really good at making music. [92]

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Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdfed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.284. Billboard.BIZ: Top Pop Albums of 1989". Archived from the original on July 21, 2012 . Retrieved May 3, 2014. Subtitularlo como volumen tres fue una broma de Harrison, como broma había sido el nombre del grupo en su origen, y lo hizo no se sabe si para confundir a la prensa especializada o para confundir a esos coleccionistas que más que disfrutar de lo que tienen, coleccionan para acumular, clasificar y numerar. Y puede que a su vez, para homenajear con ese vacío, el vacío que dejó Orbison en el grupo. También fue broma de Harrison cambiar sus "nombres wilburys" por otros nuevos "nombres wilburys". a b c "The Traveling Wilburys – Limited Edition Book". Genesis Publications . Retrieved 9 November 2017. Results – RPM – Top Albums/CDs". Library and Archives Canada. 17 July 2013 . Retrieved 5 September 2018.When commenting on Dylan's absence from promoting Vol. 1, Harrison said: "He has no qualms about taking 20% of the royalties but he doesn't do [the] interviews." [69] From my point of view, I just tried to preserve our relationship. I worked so hard to make sure that all the guys who were in that band, and consequently on record and film, that their friendship wasn't abused. Just to preserve our friendship – that was the underlying contribution, I think, that I was trying to do. [33] Harrison was the most active in promoting the Wilburys, carrying out interviews well into 1989. [35] He said he was "wait[ing] for all the other Wilburys to finish being solo artists" so that they could renew the collaboration. [67] By contrast, according to author Clinton Heylin, Dylan appeared to give the band little attention as he focused on re-establishing himself as a live performer before recording his 1989 album Oh Mercy. [68] [nb 7] The song Tweeter and the Monkey Man was written to make fun of the kinds of songs written by Bruce Springsteen up to that point. [3] [5] A remarkable sophisticated musical culture developed, considering there were no managers or agents, and the further the Wilburys traveled the more adventurous their music became,” the legend stated. “And the more it was revered by the elders of the tribe who believed it had the power to stave off madness, turn brunettes into blondes and increase the size of their ears.”