The Traveling Wilburys : Rolling Stone

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Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1

Two of the original five Wilburys have moseyed on, mortality-wise: George Harrison and Roy Orbison. But what really sounds boneyard-bound on these reissues is Jeff Lynne's production. In the late 1980s, he produced every other record on rock radio (i.e., the non-Phil Collins ones), giving them all...

2007 RS: 2of 5 Stars

Biography

Though most of its members got their start in the 1960s, the Traveling Wilburys is the kind of supergroup that could only have been formed in the late-'80s, a time when baby-boomer nostalgia was rampant, and when major labels were still interested in giving deals to musicians in their forties and fifties.

In 1988, George Harrison — experiencing a solo-career boost thanks to his Jeff...

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