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The Traveling Wilburys: Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison & George Harrison

I have been asked a couple of times already who sings exactly what on the two volumes that The Traveling Wilburys were to issue during their stint together. Some (younger) people just aren’t accustomed to the singers’ voices on their own, and that is aggravated by the fact Petty sounds just like Dylan more than sporadically (“End Of The Line”, “7 Deadly Sins”). That is the reason why I decided to put this list together.

To begin with, their pseudonyms for each album:

The Traveling Wilburys Vol 1

Nelson Wilbury – George Harrison Otis Wilbury – Jeff Lynne Lefty Wilbury – Roy Orbison Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. – Tom Petty Lucky Wilbury – Bob Dylan

The Traveling Wilburys Vol 3

Spike Wilbury – George Harrison Clayton Wilbury – Jeff Lynne Muddy Wilbury – Tom Petty Boo Wilbury – Bob Dylan

Now, who sings what:

Handle With Care – Harrison Dirty World – Dylan Rattled – Lynne Last Night – Petty Not Alone Anymore – Orbison Congratulations – Dylan Heading for the Light – Harrison Margarita – Dylan Tweeter and the Monkey Man- Dylan End of the Line- Petty (with Harrison, Lynne and Orbison singing a verse or two each) The Traveling Wilburys Vol 3

She’s My Baby – Petty (Dylan and Harrison also sing several parts) Inside Out – Dylan (with parts by Petty and Harrison) She Belongs To Me – Dylan The Devil’s Been Busy – Petty with Dylan and Lynne 7 Deadly Sins – Dylan Poor House – Petty Where Were You Last Night? – Dylan, Harrison Cool Dry Place – Petty New Blue Moon – Lynne, Harrison and Petty harmonizing together You Took My Breath Away – Petty, Lynne Wilbury Twist – Petty

There, I hope that helped!

The Traveling Wilburys came to terms with death on “End Of The Line”

In Hear This , The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs about endings.

Traveling Wilburys, “End Of The Line” (1989)

I discovered the Travelling Wilburys when I was 10 or something, having stumbled across the group’s debut album on a tape my parents had tucked away in the back of their stereo cabinet. I don’t know where they got it—my parents are more library people than purchasing people—but I really liked the tunes. They were poppy and catchy in equal parts, and right up my pre-teen alley.

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It wasn’t until years later that I actually figured out who the Wilburys were. When I was 10, I just thought they were guys with funny hats or something, never having bothered to read the tiny cassette liner notes. I knew who George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty were at the time, but I knew them as individual artists or as members of larger acts like The Beatles. Learning, when I was 18, that those guys all banded together with ELO’s Jeff Lynne to form a supergroup was pretty confounding. Even now, the concept of the Wilburys still seems pretty ridiculous. A bunch of mega-stars who just happen to be friends get together and make a couple of records— and those records aren’t terrible . In fact, they’re pretty good. It’s shocking.

While my favorite Wilburys track is the group’s first single, “ Handle With Care ,” there’s a lot to love about the gang’s second single, “End Of The Line,” as well. An extended metaphor that smashes together a bunch of freight-train references and thoughts about living your best life, “End Of The Line” is full of lines extolling the virtues of “[living] the life you please” and how “the best you can do is forgive.” The Wilburys weren’t old guys when their first record was released in 1988—Tom Petty was 38, for instance, while Harrison was 45—but the song sounds like the group was making peace with the end of their respective lives. Together, they’d all lived hard and long, and were apparently feeling pretty zen about the whole death thing.

All that end-of-life musing is particularly poignant when you consider the music video for the track was filmed right after Orbison’s untimely death from a heart attack at 52. Orbison’s vocals are still on the track—he’d recorded them long before the video shoot—but he’s conspicuously absent from the clip, represented by just a rocking chair and a guitar. Though Orbison’s death was somewhat of a surprise—he’d complained to Johnny Cash that he’d been having chest pains, but still no one thought he’d end up having a heart attack—it was as if, with this song and alongside his pals in the Wilburys, he’d learned to come to terms with not only all the tragedy he’d faced in his life, but with the possibility of his own demise. Unfortunately, that death came much too soon.

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“It real­ly had very lit­tle to do with com­bin­ing a bunch of famous peo­ple,” says Tom Pet­ty about the Trav­el­ing Wilburys. “It was a bunch of friends that just hap­pened to be real­ly good at mak­ing music.”

One of the most mod­est super­groups of the 20th cen­tu­ry, one that fate and chance threw togeth­er for a very brief peri­od, the Trav­el­ing Wilburys made music that sits out­side the usu­al his­to­ries of 1980s music, fea­tur­ing five men in dif­fer­ent states of their careers. Tom Pet­ty was about to have a come­back, George Har­ri­son had just had one, Jeff Lynne was no longer hav­ing chart hits as ELO, but he was shap­ing the sound of the late 1980s as a pro­duc­er, Roy Orbi­son was *about* to have a posthu­mous come­back, and Bob Dylan was…doing what­ev­er Dylan does—every album he put out in the ‘80s had an equal num­ber of detrac­tors and come­back claimants. Put it this way: the Trav­el­ing Wilburys didn’t feel like a nos­tal­gia act, and nei­ther did it feel like a mar­ket­ing idea. It was actu­al­ly light­ning in a bot­tle.

“It was George’s band,” Lynne says in the above mini doc­u­men­tary, but it wasn’t real­ly formed as one. It just sort of *evolved*.

As he explains ear­ly in the doc, Har­ri­son was hav­ing din­ner with Roy Orbi­son and Jeff Lynne and invit­ed them along to a stu­dio in Los Ange­les the next day. He had the han­ker­ing to make a tune, and they wound up using Bob Dylan’s home studio—the nor­mal­ly reclu­sive Dylan actu­al­ly picked up the phone on the first ring and gave the okay. And Harrison’s gui­tar was over at Tom Petty’s house, so he came along as well. The song they record­ed that day was “Han­dle with Care,” which fell togeth­er like mag­ic. (Dylan pro­vid­ed the title after look­ing over at a card­board box).

Har­ri­son sat on the song for a while, hav­ing no idea what to do with it. The only thing he could do, was to record nine more songs and call it an album. Which, once they had found time in everybody’s sched­ule, they did. The songs were record­ed at the home stu­dio of Dave Stew­art (of the Eury­th­mics) and final­ized back in Lon­don with Har­ri­son and Lynne. The group gave them­selves the assign­ment of one song writ­ten and record­ed per day. That the record isn’t a mish-mash of jam­ming, left­over ideas, and cov­ers, and instead has a legit­i­mate amount of clas­sic sin­gles and career-high­light moments is a tes­ta­ment to the friend­ship between the five (and drum­mer Jim Kelt­ner, who knew them all).

Friends indeed, but it doesn’t mean they weren’t also big fans of each oth­er. What’s cool to watch in the doc is how in awe they all seem: George is amazed by Bob’s cryp­tic scrawled lyrics and his abil­i­ty to nail a song on essen­tial­ly the first take. Tom Pet­ty is in awe of George’s demo­c­ra­t­ic ways with choos­ing who gets to sing one of the songs, regard­less of who wrote it—really, how do you fol­low Roy Orbison’s ver­sion of a song? But Tom Pet­ty still had a go.

The album main­tains that friend­ly vibe in the record­ing: micro­phones were mobile to catch music wher­ev­er it hap­pened. Jim Kelt­ner played rhythm on the inside of the kitchen’s refrig­er­a­tor. Songs were writ­ten in the kitchen. And after the work was done, the music would con­tin­ue. “A lot of ukule­les till dawn,” says Har­ri­son.

Roy Orbi­son only made it into the first music video off of the album, “Han­dle With Care.” He passed away just after the album went plat­inum in 1988, and appears as an emp­ty rock­ing chair on the next video, “The End of the Line.”

The four remain­ing Wilburys would reunite for one more album (jok­ing­ly titled Vol­ume 3 by prankster Har­ri­son), but the first album still sounds time­less, five friends just hav­ing a good time togeth­er.

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I’d argue that Orbi­son made his come­back just as he was about to die, and died at his sec­ond-peak. Remem­ber, his songs were just fea­tured in mul­ti­ple David Lynch films, he had that wild­ly-pop­u­lar Black & White Con­cert, where he was backed by oth­er super­stars, and his song “You Got It” and his album, “Mys­tery Girl”, were at the top-of-the-charts when he sud­den­ly ascend­ed into Rock & Roll Heav­en. Good for Roy, he was a nation­al-trea­sure!

Hi, good arti­cle over all but you got a major fact wrong about Roy Orbi­son and his involve­ment in the first Wilbury album. He was fea­tured on almost every sin­gle track on the album and well as a stand alone song, above and being the tit­u­lar Han­dle With Care. His pres­ence was huge, and I don’t know how you couldn’t know that unless you haven’t actu­al­ly lis­tened to the record you’re talk­ing about. Very strange.

I caught that too. But what do I know, I’m an old rock and roll ani­mal with one foot in the grave. I record­ed this doc on DVD from the Sun­dance chan­nel decades ago. Still have it and coin­ci­den­tal­ly just watched it again.

For myself, this group of incred­i­ble guys will always be a part of my music world. All of them leg­ends, and sad­ly 3 are gone. When TW was active­ly record­ing and tour­ing, I was not famil­iar with them. I’m embar­rassed about that, although I was always lis­ten­ing to all of them indi­vid­u­al­ly. I just was not aware of the group itself. I love the music now and will always!

They didn’t say that Orbi­son wasn’t involved with every track on the album. Only that he was in one music video. Which is absolute­ly true.

Orig­i­nal writer here: yes, that was an unfor­tu­nate typo on my part, writ­ing “song” instead of “music video”. I was Run­ning Scared from the inter­net com­ments at first, and was Cry­ing over it , but now we’ve fixed the error. I apol­o­gize and ask for [Pret­ty Woman riff} Mer­cy!!!

I’m not an IT guy. Where can I watch the doc­u­men­tary of the Wilburys?

If you read the artical,it said he only made it into the first Music Video off the first album

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Handle With Care: The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 at 35

A loose salute to the debut album from classic rock’s greatest supergroup

It was 35 years ago today when the Traveling Wilburys joined forces and released their debut album Vol. 1 to an unsuspecting audience of classic rock fans.

The quintet – comprised of George Harrison (Nelson), Jeff Lynne (Otis), Bob Dylan (Lucky), Roy Orbison (Lefty) and Tom Petty (Charlie T. Jr.), all working under aliases with the common surname of Wilbury – cut this record in about two weeks at Eurythmic Dave Stewart’s home studio in Los Angeles, CA.  

They even came up with a whole folklore behind the brotherly bond, originally inscribed on the inside sleeve of the original LP, written by one Hugh Jampton, E.F. Norti-Bitz Reader in Applied Jacket from the “University of Krakatoa (East of Java),” who was in actuality Monty Python’s Michael Palin.

“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 inscription 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.”

But silliness aside, what these five men recorded alongside such longtime friends as saxophonist Jim Horn and drummer Jim Keltner was an album of collaborative kismet that remains the template for the rock supergroup to this day.

VIDEO: The Traveling Wilburys “Handle With Care”

“We would arrive about twelve or one o’clock and have some coffee,” Lynne told Rolling Stone in 1989. “Somebody would say, ‘What about this?’ and start on a riff. Then we’d all join in, and it’d turn into something. We’d finish around midnight and just sit for a bit while Roy would tell us fabulous stories about Sun Records or hanging out with Elvis. Then we’d come back the next day to work on another one. That’s why the songs are so good and fresh — because they haven’t been second-guessed and dissected and replaced. It’s so tempting to add stuff to a song when you’ve got unlimited time.”

But where tracks like the album’s bookending hit singles “Handle With Care” and “End of the Line” showcased the Wilburys altogether as one entity, there’s enough individualized moments where one player takes the wheel, like Dylan’s Springsteen send-up “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” and Orbison’s yearning “Not Alone Any More,” to let you know exactly who is at the table. Then there’s a song like “Heading For The Light,” a co-write between Harrison and Lynne that feels like a seamless extension of their work together on Harrison’s Cloud Nine LP, while Petty and Orbison team up for the cheeky “Last Night.” 

VIDEO: The Traveling Wilburys “End of the Line”

Orbison, sadly, would pass away from a sudden heart attack on December 6th at the age of 52, only a month-and-a-half after Vol. 1 was released. For Keltner, talking to Billboard in 2018, Roy proved to be the true glue that made the Traveling Wilburys evolve from a one-off B-side jam into a full-fledged entity.

“Roy was the absolute reason why they even came together in the first place,” he admits. “They all loved George and would have certainly come together for him. But with Roy, it was a no-brainer. The first album had this magic to it, and that was all Roy. They were all icons in their own way, but it was Roy who kept them having fun and knowing they were doing something special.”

And 35 years later, Vol. 1 remains a testament to this legendary union and the brilliance that emerges from loose fun with good pals. 

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SUCH a great album — worth the price of admission just to hear Roy croon, “I’m so tired of being lonely / I still have some love to give” but there are golden moments aplenty for each Wilbury.

Who might today’s Wilburys be? 🤔

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It all started in Los Angeles in Spring 1988 when George Harrison was looking to record B-side material for a vinyl 12-inch European single. Jeff Lynne , who co-produced Harrison’s most recent album Cloud Nine was also in Los Angeles at the time. Lynne was producing some music for Roy Orbison as well as the debut solo album, Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty . Lynne was able to enlist both artists to help out Harrison, who was in a huge hurry to record his material. The final piece of the Traveling Wilbury puzzle was Bob Dylan , who had built a home studio in nearby Malibu and agreed to let the makeshift group record the very next day. On that day, the legendary musicians wrote and recorded the song “Handle with Care” in about five hours. The experience was so positive that all five agreed to form a group and reconvened a month later to record the other nine tracks on what would become Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 . Here the magic continued as the group wrote and recorded on acoustic guitars. With a limited amount of time before Dylan headed out on a scheduled tour, the five singers in the group often took turns at songs until Harrison (as group arbiter) selected the best “lead” voice for each part. The final phase was Harrison and Lynne returning to England for final overdubs and production. Here Harrison added some electric and lead guitars, Lynne added keyboards and bass, Jim Keltner was brought in on drums.

Although it is generally agreed that Harrison was the group’s leader, they did work hard to maintain a collective image and even set up fictional names for each member masquerading as the “Wilbury” brothers – Nelson (Harrison), Otis (Lynne), Lucky (Dylan), Lefty (Orbison), and Charlie T. Jr. (Petty) with Keltner given the humorous “outsider” name “Buster Sidebury”. All group members also got songwriting credits on the album, although the publishing credits were disbursed according to the actual songwriter. The Wilbury name originated from Harrison and Lynne previously working together as a pseudonym for slight recording errors (“we’ll bury ’em in the mix”).

The ringing guitars of “Handle with Care”, the original Wilbury song, starts things off. Harrison, the primary composer, delivers deliberate vocalizing during the verses which gives way to Orbison’s smooth crooning during the choruses. Dylan and Petty deliver a chanting post-chorus and two instances of Harrison’s classic guitar along with a short Dylan harmonica lead make the song a true classic in just about every way. Within its brief three and a half minutes the song is dotted with decades of rock history, making this the perfect track to introduce the album. While not every song on the album wraps itself so well as “Handle with Care”, there is not a truly weak moment on the album.

On “Dirty World” Dylan’s rough lead vocals are complimented by smooth backing vocals and a bright acoustic arrangement. The song also contains some horns and an interesting arrangement all around. This song was a particularly enjoyable one for the band to record as each member took a turn singing in the “round” during the extended outro. Jeff Lynne’s “Rattled” is pure rockabilly led by Orbinson on vocals, almost like a lost early Elvis song. Lynne’s bass and Harrison’s lead guitar shine musically and the actual “rattle” in the song is drummer Keltner tapping the refrigerator grill with his drum sticks.

“Last Night” contains Caribbean elements with some percussion and horns and Petty singing during verse and Orbinson during the bridges. The whimsical, storytelling song has a great aura and feel throughout. Petty did the core composing with each group member contributing to the songwriting approach. The verses has an upbeat folk/Latin feel with the bridge being a bit more dramatic. The first side completes with “Not Alone Any More”, a vocal centerpiece for Orbison. His vocals smoothly lead a modern version of early sixties rock and Lynne’s keyboards add more decoration than any other song on the first side. If “Not Alone Anymore” is in the clouds, the second side opener “Congratulations” is right down at ground level. This tavern style ballad with Dylan on lead vocals sounds much like his late 70s / early 80s era material, with blues-like reverences to broken relationships, and includes a very short but great lead guitar by Harrison right at the end.

The up-tempo “Heading for the Light” is a quintessential Harrison/Lynne production, with the former Beatle composing and singing and the former ELO front man providing the lush production and orchestration. The song contains great picked guitar fills as well as a saxophone solo by Jim Horn . “Margarita” may be the oddest song on the album but is still a great sonic pleasure. It begins with a programmed eighties synth line then the long intro slowly works its way into a Latin acoustic section topped by horns, lead guitar, and rich vocal harmonies. It is not until a minute and a half in that Petty’s lead vocals come in for a single verse then the song works its ways through various short sections towards an encapsulated synth ending. This spontaneous composition with free-association lyrics showed with a group of this talent could do on the spot.

“Tweeter and the Monkey Man” is Bob Dylan channeling Bruce Springsteen and coming out with what may have been one of the best Springsteen songs ever (even though he had nothing to do with it). This extended song with the traditional Dylan style of oodles of verses and a theatrical chorus includes several references to Springsteen songs throughout and is in Springsteen’s home state of New Jersey. It may have been Dylan’s delayed response to the press repeatedly coining Bruce “the next Dylan”. No matter what the case, the result is an excellent tune with lyrics rich enough to base a book or movie.

The most perfect album closer to any album – ever, “End of the Line” contains a Johnny Cash-like train rhythm beneathe deeply philosophical lyrics, delivered in a light and upbeat fashion. Harrison, Lynne, Orbinson, and Harrison again provide the lead vocals during the chorus hooks while Petty does the intervening verses. The song revisits the classic music themes of survival and return with the universal message that, in the big picture, it all ends someday. The feeling of band unity is also strongest here with the folksy pop/rock chords and great harmonies. The music video for “End of the Line” was filmed after Roy Orbison’s death in December 1988, mere weeks after the album’s release, and paid tasteful respect with a shot of a guitar sitting in a rocking chair during the verse which Orbison sang.

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 sold over two million copies within its first six months, a figure which made this album a higher seller than any of Bob Dylan’s albums to that date. The album was critically favored and won a Grammy award in 1990. The surviving members of the group reconvened for a second album, which fell far short of capturing the magic of this debut and a long-planned tour by the group never materialized, although members continued to collaborate on each other’s albums for years to come. The incredible magic that came together in 1988 is yet to repeated anywhere in the rock universe.

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The Truth About How The Highwaymen Got Together

Marvel Team-up teaches us lots of lessons about teamwork and cooperation and grudging admiration of another person's abilities. It also teaches us that if one awe-inspiring individual is, well, awe-inspiring, wouldn't it be cooler if there was more than one? That's absolutely the music world's reaction to supergroups like 1988's The Traveling Wilburys: George Harrison (awesome), Bob Dylan (more awesome), Jeff Lyne (awesomer), Tom Petty (awesome to the nth exponential degree) and Roy Orbison (everyone's head explodes). That's rock-and-roll heaven right there. Country music got the jump on them, though, with Highwayman, the debut album of The Highwaymen in 1985.

The band worked together for 10 years, comprised of some of the most influential and popular singer-songwriters in country history: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson. Rolling Stone Magazine quoted Emmy Lou Harris, no slouch herself: "They need to be up there on the big rock with the presidents."

It was a supergroup founded on friendship

John Carter Cash , Johnny's son who personally witnessed the band coming together, believes that at its foundation, The Highwaymen was a supergroup "founded by friendship. And it's the honesty and the purity of that friendship that made the Highwaymen stand out." Shooter Jennings, son of Waylon, echoes that sentiment. "Those guys really loved each other," he said. "That's where the magic was."

It's said that the idea was birthed via Johnny Cash, who was filming a TV Christmas special in Montreux, Switzerland, and invited the other three to take part. They'd known each other for years — Rosanne Cash says that her father and Waylon "were roommates in the Sixties, hiding their drugs from each other" — and even after a long day's filming, would still get together at the hotel at the end of the day and simply play music together. That led to an album, including a title track (and band name) written by Jimmy Webb, "Highwayman." Eventually the group would record two other studio albums together, Highwayman II and The Road Goes On Forever . A 2016 CD box set and DVD release include concert footage of the group.

Besides the pure joy of recording and performing together, the four of them appeared together in the 1986 remake of John Ford's classic film Stagecoach . The team really was a marvel.

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The all-star video that accompanied the Traveling Wilburys’ 1991 single ‘Wilbury Twist,’ from their Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 album of the year before, has been restored and is now available digitally for the first time. You can watch the clip here, with its introductory scenes featuring actor John Candy, before appearances by numerous celebrities of the day.

Among those making fun cameos in the clip are Woody Harrelson, Whoopi Goldberg, hitmakers of the era Milli Vanilli, Cheech Marin, actors Fred, Ben and Kala Savage and Monty Python member and comic performer Eric Idle. These were filmed at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, along with the performance by the stellar band. George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne are accompanied on drums, as throughout the Vol. 3 album, by Jim Keltner.

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‘Wilbury Twist’ was the closing track on the original album release, and the second to be released as a single following ‘She’s My Baby.’ The latter song reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, after which ‘Inside Out’ hit No. 16. ‘Wilbury Twist’ registered at No. 46 on that listing. Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 made No. 11 on the Billboard 200, No. 14 in the UK and reached the top five in several European countries, including Sweden and Norway.

The sleeve for the single gave instructions for the decidedly tongue-in-cheek dance of the song’s title. “To dance the Wilbury Twist,” it said, “you must have some idea of the basic steps and hand motions. Grace is the key to successful dancing. Fluid, co-ordinated movements are what make a dancer outstanding. Good dancers do not wiggle their hips, but move them naturally in rhythm with the steps and music.

“Briefly, there are three things to remember: 1. Feet keep time. 2. Swaying-hips is a natural movement that accentuates rhythm. 3. Hands and facial expressions interpret the meaning of the dance.”

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El mejor supergrupo de la historia.

First outing was fun and some great tunes, undeniably so. Second outing was Dylan dominated and lost its authenticity for me and the song standards were frankly lower. Not alone anymore is a great mournful song beautifully sung by Roy

Nothing they did was new or interesting, nor did it bother to combine strengths. Given that they are mostly mediocre vocalists, this isn't surprising.

What fun. These guys sound like a bunch of icons with nothing to prove, getting together and cranking out a few good-time folky rock tunes. As good as anything they were creating as individuals at the time. RIP Roy Orbison - it would have been great to keep this experiment up.

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Was Johnny Cash in the Traveling Wilburys?

This show comprises each individual artist that were in the Traveling Wilburys and the Highwaymen they are as follows: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Jeff Lynn, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan.

Also Was Roy Orbison in the highwaymen? These men comprised of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson—also known as The Highwaymen. … These famous gatherings often comprised of greats like Roy Orbison, Graham Nash, Bob Dylan, Mickey Newbury, Joni Mitchell and Shel Silverstein as well as Willie, Kris and Waylon.

Likewise Why is Roy Orbison not in End of the line video? Roy Orbison died before the music video of this song was made, so in memory of him, when his verse comes on they show a picture of him on the train and his guitar on a rocking chair . >>

Are Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson still friends? Talking about the pillars of country music, good friends Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson are still strong, alive and kicking .

Was Willie and Waylon friends?

Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were the best of friends , and they collaborated on hits more than once. One of the pair’s biggest hits was “Good Hearted Woman,” and they finished it in an unlikely setting — in the middle of one of Nelson’s infamous private poker games.

How did the highwaymen get started? The idea for the Highwaymen came about in 1984 when Cash wrangled Nelson, Kristofferson and Jennings to film Cash’s Christmas special in Montreux, Switzerland .

Was end of the line dedicated to Roy Orbison? The music video for “End of the Line” was directed by Willy Smax and filmed in Los Angeles shortly after Orbison’s death in December 1988. … End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys song)

Who played drums in the Traveling Wilburys? Keltner played drums on both albums released by the 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, playing under the pseudonym “Buster Sidebury”.

Who are the highwaymen today?

As of December 2011, just two of the five original members are still alive: Steve Trott and Steve Butts .

Which Highwaymen are still alive? Fittingly, then, Wednesday night’s “The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson” tribute concert in Nashville featured a reconstituted Highwaymen, with guest of honor Kristofferson and Nelson — the two surviving Highwaymen — joined by Shooter Jennings and Jamey Johnson.

Did Johnny Cash know Willie Nelson?

“ I met Willie in about ’56 at a disc jockey’s convention in Nashville,” Cash recalls. “Songwriters came there to meet artists who might record their songs. I’ve always been impressed with him as a musician, but what stuck with me was his writing. We never worked together until the Highwaymen scene came along.

Who were the four members of the Highwaymen? The Highwaymen were an American country music supergroup, composed of four of country music’s biggest artists who pioneered the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson .

How did Johnny Cash meet Waylon Jennings?

Background. Cash and Jennings first met in the mid sixties . … “It was like a sitcom; we were the original ‘Odd Couple,'” Jennings wrote in his memoir. “I was supposed to clean up, and John was the one doing the cooking.

Who tracked down and killed Bonnie and Clyde?

Francis Augustus Hamer (March 17, 1884 – July 10, 1955) was an American law enforcement officer and Texas Ranger who led the 1934 posse that tracked down and killed criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. …

Do Highwaymen still exist? Music. There were many broadsheet ballads about highwaymen; these were often written to be sold on the occasion of a famous robber’s execution. A number of highwaymen ballads have remained current in oral tradition in England and Ireland .

Who has died from the Traveling Wilburys? Roy Orbison died of a heart attack on 6 December 1988. In tribute to him, the music video for the band’s second single, “End of the Line”, shows Orbison’s guitar rocking in a chair when his vocals are heard. Lynne recalled that Orbison’s death in the wake of Vol. 1’s success was “the most sickening thing to me”.

Who died first in the Traveling Wilburys?

Roy Orbison’s death in December 1988 came just six weeks after the release of Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, the debut album of the famed supergroup. When the band reconvened to make a video for the record’s second single, “End of the Line,” its remaining members decided to pay homage to their departed bandmate.

How many members of the Traveling Wilburys have died? Three Wilburys already died | Roy orbison, Travelling wilburys, Jeff lynne.

Who was the female drummer for Motley Crue?

Samantha Maloney (born December 11, 1975) is an American musician best known for playing in the bands Hole and Mötley Crüe.

Did Ringo Starr ever play drums for the Traveling Wilburys? Originally Answered: Why was Ringo Starr not a part of The Traveling Wilburys? The Traveling Wilburys were Harrison’s band with his friends, he already had a drummer, Jim Keltner , long time sessions drummer who played on all 4 Beatles solo albums.

Was the Highwaymen a true story?

The latest of many films to tackle the story is The Highwaymen. … It is the true story of Frank Hamer and Maney Gault , two Texas Rangers who hunted down and killed the duo.

How much is Kris Kristofferson? Kris Kristofferson Net Worth: Kris Kristofferson is a retired American singer, songwriter, and actor who has a net worth of $160 million . … Kris Kristofferson Net Worth.

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