Video Vault Thursdays!

This one is also an oldie but a goodie. Just a bunch of guys who got together one day and decided they liked playing together, they wrote a few songs and put out an album but what an album it was!

Initially starting at a meal between Roy Orbison, George Harrison, and Jeff Lynne, they got together at Bob Dylan’s studio (Santa Monica, California) to record an additional track as a B-side for the single release of Harrison’s “This Is Love.” Tom Petty’s involvement was by chance as Harrison had left his guitar at Petty’s house. The song they came up with was “Handle with Care.” However, the record company immediately realized it was too good to be released as a single “filler.”

The thing I really love about this is how they paid tribute to Roy Orbison, hard to believe there are only three surviving Wilburys now. My understanding is it was really hard to come by these albums until they were recently rereleased:

In the late 90s and early 2000s, the two Traveling Wilburys albums had limited availability and were out of print in most territories. Harrison, as primary holder of the rights, did not reissue them prior to his death. In June 2007, the two albums were reissued as a two CD and one DVD set, originally announced by Tom Petty on his XM radio show and in the February 2007 edition of Q Magazine in an interview with Jeff Lynne.