‘A reaction to injustice’: The story behind Bob Dylan’s ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’

<p>A new bootleg series of the revered singer-songwriter’s work between 1956 to 1963 contains two early recordings of his masterpiece of a protest song, ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/author/roisin-oconnor">Roisin O’Connor</a> speaks with historian and Dylan expert Sean Wilentz about the true event that inspired the track, and what makes it so powerful all these years later</p>