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Mid-Series Breather + Wilbury World Playlist (for all!)
Hi—
We’ve now spent three episodes in Wilbury World: George Harrison’s comeback, Roy Orbison’s comeback, Jeff Lynne becoming the go-to producer for aging rock stars, and the groovy LA family beginning to form around all of them in 1987 and 1988. So this feels like a good moment to take a breather.
Between Wilbury Wednesdays and John Lennon’s Jukebox, it’s been a busy few weeks around here, and I’ve heard from a number of you who are still catching up. So this week I’ve got a great playlist of songs by our main characters and I encourage you to listen to this and allow yourself to soak a little deeper into the Wilbury World.
It’s a carefully sequenced, very enjoyable listen. Some of these songs we’ve already talked about and some point to where the story is headed next. None are actually by the Traveling Wilburys.
The deeper I dive into this story, the less it feels like a story about a supergroup and the more it feels like a story about friendship, fandom, and the very happy accidents that happen when good pals make music together.
So enjoy the playlist below, and we’ll pick up the story next Wednesday as Bob Dylan enters the picture.
– walt
Wilbury World Playlist (for all!)
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And here’s what we’ve covered so far:
Episode 1: George Harrison’s comeback.
Episode 2: Roy Orbison’s comeback.
Episode 3: The Wilbury world begins to form.
Wilbury Wednesdays is a new limited series for paid subscribers where we explore the wild and wonderful world of the late-80s supergroup Traveling Wilburys. New episodes every Wednesday.
