"In the aftermath [of Woody Guthrie's death], a fund-raising gala was organised, held at Carnegie Hall on 20 January 1968. A second took place on 12 September 1970 at the Hollywood Bowl. They were star-spangled affairs. Listening to the Carnegie Hall performance is to be reminded how, variously, scripted, polished and seat-of-the-pants the whole affair was. Both galas combined linking narratives and songs, most of the latter Guthrie's own. In what's come down as a rare co-operative effort between market rivals, Columbia and Warner Brothers split them into double-LP releases. Columbia released the New York, Warner the Californian material. [This set] gathers both sources with outtakes, project-specific interviews and oral testimony from Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Pete Seeger ... "Woody Guthrie - the tribute concerts" is impeccable, an embellished LP-sized box set created to Bear Family's usual breathtaking standards".