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

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

Wednesday 22nd October 2025, 5:00AM

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’. Roisin O’Connor 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

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