Dear Mrs Roosevelt

On January 20, 1968, Bob Dylan stepped onto a stage and played before an audience for the first time since May 27, 1966, the final stop of his world tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

On January 20, 1968, Bob Dylan stepped onto a stage and played before an audience for the first time since May 27, 1966, the final stop of his world tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London.  The stage was that of Carnegie Hall, where Dylan had last appeared in October of 1965, his last appearance in New York City.  The occasion was not a Bob Dylan concert, but a tribute to Dylan’s acknowledged primary influence, Woody Guthrie.  On stage with Dylan were several folk music musicians from his earliest days in New York including Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Odetta and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.  The concert was a scripted affair, the script written by Millard Lampell who had been in the Almanac Singers with Guthrie. Based on and including segments from Guthrie’s writings, it served to introduce the songs and was narrated by actors Will Geer and Robert Ryan.