My brother loved his early Bob Dylan and also his Woody Guthrie and owned these two volumes when they came out. I loved the Bob Dylan tracks being so early after his motorbike accident and its echoes of the Great White Wonder. These are really worth downloading and have been out of print for many years now and I have been searching for them for a while.
Tribute to Woody Guthrie Vol I 1968 - Zero G Sounds
This is a various-artists set recorded at a charity fund raising concert at Carnegie Hall, January 20, 1968, held in memory of Woody Guthrie's then-recent death after years of illness. The Band performed with Bob Dylan on riveting versions of "I Ain't Got No Home," "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt," and "The Grand Coulee Dam." This was Bob Dylan's first public performance after the motorcycle accident. The Band were announced under some weird name (The Crackers?) because they still did not have an official name.
Tribute To Woody Guthrie Vol II 1970 - Zero G Sounds
The passing of folk-music pillar Woody Guthrie was fresh on the minds of the participants in the first of the two concerts that make up this live tribute recording.
Guthrie had died of Huntington's disease in the fall of 1967. The following January, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, and several other Woody apostles gathered to perform the folk legend's songs at Carnegie Hall. In September of 1970, a second gathering convened in the Hollywood Bowl, this one headlined by Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie, and others.
Recordings from these concerts were originally released separately on two records in 1972, here´s the second one of this set.
from the wonderful Zerosounds who has a plethora of Woody Guthrie stuff on his site
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