This is good news! I so excited for this...when I worked music retail..this was probably the most sought after out of print album....I have a vinyl of the original thats probably worth bucks now!!!

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After being out of print for more than a decade, the two studio albums from all-star band the Traveling Wilburys will return to the marketplace in a variety of formats June 12 via Wilbury Records/Rhino, Billboard.com has learned.

"Traveling Wilburys Volume 1" and "Traveling Wilburys Volume 3" will be available together in one package with bonus tracks and a DVD of rare footage, as a deluxe linen-bound edition, a vinyl set and a digital bundle. The DVD boasts a 24-minute documentary and five music videos.

The Wilburys formed in 1988 after Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison assembled at a 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. It went on to reach No. 45 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the "Volume 1" album hit No. 3 on The Billboard 200. The reissued version of the album includes the previously unreleased tracks "Maxine" and "Like a Ship."


Orbison died in late 1988 before a second album could be completed; it was eventually released as "Volume 3" in 1990. The set is expanded here with the B-side "Runaway" and "Nobody's Child," which was released on a benefit album for Romanian orphans.

Definitely sought after OOP and I know this just from diggin'.

I don't know why it is OOP considering it had some radio hits.

Great news! I have them both on CD, but I will certainly get the reissues.

Very interesting. Not sure if I'll get these - I'm more of a Harrison fan than a Dylan, Orbison, Lynne or Petty fan, and the material I've heard seems very middle-of-the-road. But it's about time these are re-released, considering I see them occasionally for $50 in second-hand record stores.

booyah said:

Wow! I've got 'Volume One' on vinyl, and I didn't think it was worth much. Hmmm ...

I'm more of an Orbison fan, with a little Dylan (as it were), but I also like the others (well, except maybe Jeff Lynne). I always thought Roy Orbison was a little underused on the first album (he did live to see it finished), having only one real lead vocal track of his own. I've read he recorded at least one more lead vocal song for the album, called 'Winged Serpent', which has never been released. Don't know if this will appear on the reissues.

Roy could've easily been on the second album, as apparently he has a vast vault of unreleased material from most periods of his career, so they could have taken a couple of these from the '80s and 'Wilbury-fied' them, tho this may have gone against the 'raw rock n' roll' spirit of the Wilburys project.