Five Reasons You Should Buy the Traveling Wilburys Rerelease.

*Jeff Lynne
*Roy Orbison
*Tom Petty
*George Harrison
*Bob Dylan

In 1988 George Harrison was asked to write and record a B-side for an international single. He was having lunch with his producer Jeff (from the Electric Light Orchestra)and Roy (whose album Jeff was also producing). Roy offered to sing backing vocals on the track. They were all set to write and record when George remembered that his guitar was at Tom's house. They got the guitar and soon Tom was on board for the project. The four of them then remembered that Bo had a reocording studio in his house and so soon they were at Bob's place trading off lyrical ideas.

When the finished product "Handle With Care" was given to the record company, the execs and the musicians realized that this was too good for a b-side and soon the five friends would form the Traveling Wilburys. They would release two albums, the second of which was recorded after Roy's death. Unfortunately, these two fun albums went out of prin in the mid 1990s. But, just yesterday Rhino Records rereleased the albums in a great two disc set with bonus tracks and other goodies.

Here's the video for the song that started it all: