THE TRAVELING WILBURYS TO REISSUE CATALOGUE
THE TRAVELING WILBURYS TO REISSUE CATALOGUE
The Traveling Wilburys Music to Debut on Streaming Services for First Time Ever
22 APRIL 2016 (Toronto, ON) – Concord Bicycle Music and Universal Music Canada, the country's leading music company, are very pleased to announce a licensing agreement with The Traveling Wilburys to represent the iconic band's entire catalogue, including physical and digital reissues. For the first time ever, The Traveling Wilburys music will be available on streaming services, beginning June 3, 2016, along with the re-launch of the hugely successful Traveling Wilburys Collection box set as a limited-edition, uniquely numbered 2-CD 1-DVD box set, standard 2-CD 1-DVD package, deluxe 180-gram vinyl box and for the first time as high-resolution downloads. The release includes albums (Vol. 1 and Vol. 3), bonus tracks and a DVD featuring footage of the band from the first chord to the final mix. When originally released in 2007, The Traveling Wilburys Collection debuted at #1 in the UK and six other countries, debuting on the Canadian charts at #4 and going on to Gold sales status."…one of the few rock super groups actually deserving to be called either super or a group." —Rolling Stone, Dec 1, 1988
The previously released albums Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 and Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 feature music's greatest singer-songwriters — George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan — as the legendary band the Traveling Wilburys. The Wilburys formed in 1988 after Dylan, Harrison, Petty, Lynne and Orbison assembled at Dylan's Malibu, California, studio to record a B-side for the Harrison single This Is Love. The resulting song, Handle With Care, was instead released under the Wilburys name, with the artists posing as a band of brothers. George later said, "I liked the song and the way that it turned out with all these people on it so much that I just carried it around in my pocket for ages thinking, 'Well what can I do with this thing?' And the only thing to do I could think of was do another nine. Make an album." The original album release, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, achieved great success; after hitting No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, the certified double Platinum album earned a GRAMMY® for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, the group's second album, was released in 1990 and dedicated to Lefty (Roy Orbison) Wilbury, who passed away in late 1988 before recording could be completed.Website / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / YouTube