Written by: The Traveling Wilburys
Recorded: April-May; July 1990
Producers: George Harrison, Jeff Lynne
Released: 29 October 1990
Available on:
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3
Personnel
Muddy Wilbury (Tom Petty): vocals, acoustic guitar
Clayton Wilbury (Jeff Lynne): vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
Spike Wilbury (George Harrison): vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Boo Wilbury (Bob Dylan): vocals, acoustic guitar
Buster Sidebury (Jim Keltner): drums, percussion
Ray Cooper: percussion
‘Poor House’ is the sixth song on Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3.
The song was co-written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, the only such composition on the band’s second album.
My favorite Traveling Wilburys song is probably ‘End Of The Line’, but there was an obscure one Jeff and I did called ‘Poor House’ on the second record. That was one I wrote about 10 minutes after the session had ended and everyone was leaving. The engineer, Richard Dodd, was like, ‘Hey everybody wait; we’re gonna do this really quick.’ We laid the track down, and Jeff and I did it all in two-part harmony together on one mike, which people don’t do much anymore. At that time, we sang together quite a bit, and we had gotten pretty good a harmonies. We just thought we’d go for it because there’s no fixing it up on one mike.
Tom Petty
Sound + Vision, January 2013
Sound + Vision, January 2013
