Monday, June 17, 2013

#910 Travelling Wilburys - Travelling Wilburys Vol. 1

I won't bother listing the preposterous star power behind this most super of supergroups, but it sounds like what it is: some guys who can play and (kinda) sing, banging out some jams for kicks.

I don't have a whole lot of use for the actual songs, which take only the barest of chances and sound mostly like Tom Petty b-sides, but the spirit carries the day. These guys have nothing to prove, and it shows, and that kind of bare lack of ambition stays out of the way of the fullest-ever realization of my "is this a band I'd want to be in?" test. Good God.

That subconscious little fantasy alone, not just of playing with these guys, but of playing with these guys in this kind of breezy, sunny, dusty atmosphere, is heady shit 3.5/5

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