Robert Johnson’s hometown throws its first blues festival, and his family says it won’t be the last

Robert Johnson’s hometown throws its first blues festival, and his family says it won’t be the last

HAZLEHURST, Miss. (WLBT) – The guitar licks drifted down Ragsdale Avenue before the crowd even settled into their lawn chairs Saturday. Vendors were flipping plates, kids were dancing barefoot in the grass and downtown Hazlehurst — a small Copiah County town of a few thousand people — sounded like it hadn’t in generations. This was the inaugural Robert Johnson Crossroad Blues Festival, a free, family-friendly celebration of the man many call the…