Before the Traveling Wilburys, Bob Dylan wrote some classic songs with his future bandmates

The article highlights Bob Dylan’s songwriting collaborations with two musicians who later became his bandmates in the Traveling Wilburys: George Harrison and Tom Petty. These earlier partnerships show that Dylan had experience working collaboratively before the group formed in 1988, and that the supergroup gave him a further outlet for shared songwriting.

Dylan and Harrison co-wrote ‘I’d Have You Anytime’ at Dylan’s Woodstock home around 1968; it later opened Harrison’s album *All Things Must Pass*. In 1987, Dylan and Petty worked lyrics onto a track by Petty guitarist Mike Campbell, creating ‘Jammin’ Me’, the opening song on Petty’s *Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough)*. The article says their collaboration helped build the rapport they carried into the Traveling Wilburys.